UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CLINTON THINN, Case No.: 22-cv-2-LAB-VET
Petitioner,
ORDER:
v. (1) DENYING PETITION FOR RAYBON JOHNSON, Warden, et
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
al., [Dkt. 1]; and Respondents. 16 (2) DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
I. INTRODUCTION Petitioner Clinton Thinn, a state prisoner proceeding through counsel, filed a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (“Petition”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Dkt. 1).1 Thinn challenges his 2018 conviction in San Diego Superior Court case number SCD270553 of first-degree murder and his resultant sentence of twenty- five years to life. (Id. at 1–2; see also Dkt. 5-2 at 123–24, Clerk’s Tr. (“CT”) 375– 76, Lodgment No. 1). Thinn alleges his federal constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by: (1) the trial court’s exclusion of 27 1 Page numbers cited in this Order refer to those…