Laforte
Laforte v. Godwin
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 PETER PATRICK LAFORTE, Case No.: 22-cv-69-MMA (NLS) Petitioner,
ORDER DENYING FIRST
v. AMENDED PETITION FOR A WRIT
R. GODWIN, Warden, et al., OF HABEAS CORPUS AND
14 Respondents. DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY 16 Peter Patrick LaForte (“Petitioner”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a First Amended Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Doc. No. 4. Petitioner challenges his 2018 guilty plea and conviction in San Diego Superior Court case number SCD276593 for assault with a deadly weapon with a great bodily injury enhancement and admissions to priors, along with his resultant stipulated ten years and 4 months sentence for the instant offense and for an offense in a separate case. Id.; see also Doc. No. 16-16 at 25–26. Petitioner raises three claims of federal error, alleging (1) the trial court interfered with his right to conflict-free counsel by…