The following excerpt is from Hunt v. Kernan, No. 2:15-cv-01564-JKS (E.D. Cal. 2018):
Hunt has not replied to Respondent's answer. The relevant statute provides that "[t]he allegations of a return to the writ of habeas corpus or of an answer to an order to show cause in a habeas corpus proceeding, if not traversed, shall be accepted as true except to the extent that the judge finds from the evidence that they are not true." 28 U.S.C. 2248; see also Carlson v.
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