1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 KEVIN JONES, No. 1:20-cv-01583-NONE-EPG-HC 12 Petitioner, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION, DISMISSING 13 v. PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT 14 GAVIN NEWSOM, TO ASSIGN DISTRICT JUDGE AND CLOSE CASE, AND DECLINING TO ISSUE A 15 Respondent. CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY 16 (Doc. No. 12) 17 18 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus 19 pursuant to

. On December 9, 2020, the magistrate judge issued findings and 20 recommendations recommending that the petition be dismissed without prejudice to the refiling 21 of the claims in a civil rights action brought under

. (Doc. No. 12.) Although 22 served by the court upon petitioner at his address of record, on December 28, 2020, the findings 23 and recommendations were returned to the court as undeliverable because petitioner refused 24 delivery. To date, petitioner has filed no objections, and the time for doing so has passed. 25 In accordance with the provisions of

(b)(1)(C), the court has conducted a 26 de novo review of the case. Having carefully reviewed the entire file, the court holds the findings 27 and recommendation to be supported by the record and proper analysis. Petitioner fails to state a 28 cognizable claim for federal habeas corpus relief because he challenges conditions of his 1 | confinement rather than any aspect of his underlying criminal conviction or sentence or the fact or 2 | duration of his confinement. (See Doc. No. 12 at 2-3.) As explained by the assigned magistrate 3 | judge, challenges to conditions of confinement, including allegations of forced or involuntary 4 | medication, must be brought under § 1983. (Ud. at 2.) 5 Having found that petitioner is not entitled to habeas relief, the court now turns to whether 6 | acertificate of appealability should issue. A petitioner seeking a writ of habeas corpus has no 7 | absolute entitlement to appeal a district court’s denial of his petition, and an appeal is only 8 || allowed in certain circumstances. Miller-El v. Cockrell,

(2003); 28 U.S.C. 9 | § 2253. The court should issue a certificate of appealability if “reasonable jurists could debate 10 | whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been resolved in a different 11 | manner or that the issues presented were ‘adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed 12 | further.’” Slack v. McDaniel,

(2000) (quoting Barefoot v. Estelle,

, 893 & n.4 (1983)). In the present case, the court finds that reasonable jurists would not find 14 || the court’s determination that the petition should be dismissed debatable or wrong, or that 15 | petitioner should be allowed to proceed further. Therefore, the court declines to issue a certificate 16 | of appealability. 17 Accordingly, 18 1. The findings and recommendations issued on December 9, 2020 (Doc. No. 12) are 19 adopted; 20 2. The petition for writ of habeas corpus is dismissed; 21 3. The Clerk of Court is directed to assign a district judge to this case for the purpose of 22 closing the case and then to close the case; and 23 4. The court declines to issue a certificate of appealability. 24 | IT IS SO ORDERED. me □ Dated: _ February 18, 2021 al, Al 4 7 ae 26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 27 28