Sanchez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ORLANDO SANCHEZ, Case No.: 22-cv-0192-GPC-KSC

Petitioner,

REPORT AND

v. RECOMMENDATION FOR AN

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR

NEIL MCDOWELL, Warden, A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS [Doc. Respondent. No. 1] 16 17 Petitioner Orlando Sanchez (“Sanchez”) seeks a writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction in the Superior Court for the County of San Diego for first degree murder with a firearm enhancement and possession of a firearm by a felon, for which Sanchez received a sentence of 53 years to life. See Doc. No. 1. Sanchez raises five separate grounds for relief: (1) the trial court failed to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter based on imperfect self-defense; (2) the trial court failed to instruct the jury on voluntary intoxication; (3) the trial court’s manslaughter instructions on self-defense, provocation, and “sudden quarrel/hit [sic] of passion” were incomplete and misleading; (4)…