The following excerpt is from Reyes v. Warden CSP-Corcoran, Case No. 1:16-cv-00043-LJO-EPG-HC (E.D. Cal. 2018):
susceptible to collateral attack in the federal courts."); Estelle, 502 U.S. at 67-68 ("[I]t is not the province of a federal habeas court to reexamine state-court determinations on state-law questions."); Christian v. Rhode, 41 F.3d 461, 469 (9th Cir. 1994) ("Absent a showing of fundamental unfairness, a state court's misapplication of its own sentencing laws does not justify federal habeas relief.").
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