Jimmy Downs v. Lenard Vare

MEMORANDUM

Nevada state prisoner Jimmy Earl Downs appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition with prejudice. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 , and we affirm.

Downs contends that his conviction for grand larceny and robbery violated the constitutional proscription against double jeopardy. The Nevada Supreme Court rejected this claim, reasoning that, under Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 , 52 S.Ct. 180 , 76 L.Ed. 306 (1932), each crime required the proof of a fact not required by the other. As we are bound by the Nevada Supreme Court’s determination that state law permitted conviction for both grand larceny and robbery within the context of a single trial, see Missouri v. Hunter, 459 U.S. 359, 368 , 103 S.Ct. 673 , 74 L.Ed.2d 535 (1983), we conclude that that court’s rejection of Downs’s double jeopardy challenge was neither contrary to nor based upon an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (d)(1); Hunter, 459 U.S. at 366-69 , 103 S.Ct. 673 .

Downs also urges us to consider several other claims that were either dismissed by the district court as procedurally…