Leon Dudley Noah v. United States Parole Commission

967 F.2d 589 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Leon Dudley NOAH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION, et al., Respondent-Appellee. No. 91-36058. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted May 7, 1992. * Decided June 8, 1992. As Amended on Denial of Rehearing July 16, 1992. Before PREGERSON, TROTT and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Leon Dudley Noah appeals the District Court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We affirm. OVERVIEW 3 In 1972, Noah was convicted for violating federal drug laws and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Over the course of the last two decades he has been paroled and reincarcerated five times. His petition focuses on his parole release from May 1981 to February 1984. During that period, while on parole from federal prison, Noah was convicted of forgery in a Washington state court, and served seventeen months in state…