Alexander

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JIMMY LLOYD ALEXANDER, Case No. 21-cv-05232-WHO (PR)

Petitioner,

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR

v. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

DANIEL E. CUEVO, Respondent.

12 INTRODUCTION Petitioner Jimmy Lloyd Alexander seeks federal habeas relief from his California state convictions for kidnapping to commit oral copulation, rape, sodomy and other crimes. None of his claims has merit. His conviction for kidnapping was supported by sufficient evidence of force or fear; his claims that certain expert testimony was irrelevant or prejudicial and that the trial court should have given an instruction sua sponte fail to state a claim for relief; his sentence of 175 years to life does not violate the Eighth Amendment; and the trial court’s instruction on kidnapping was a correct statement of state law and is not susceptible to Alexander’s interpretation that a juror could find him guilty of kidnapping through an act of fraud or deceit. His petition for…