The following excerpt is from Goodrum v. Busby, Civil No. 11-2262 IEG (JMA) (S.D. Cal. 2012):
speak only to the propriety of the sentence and are "unrelated to guilty or innocence" are outside the scope of section 2244, citing Greenawalt v. Stewart, 105 F.3d 1268, 1277 (9th Cir. 1997). (Id. at 18.)
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