Araujo

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioner Jose T. Araujo appeals the district court’s denial of his federal habeas corpus petition. As the facts are known to the parties, we do not recite them here. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.

After the April 23, 1996 effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, we may grant a habeas petition on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court only if that court’s decision was contrary to or involves an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States. 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (d). Under AEDPA, we may reverse a state court’s decision as involving an “unreasonable application” of clearly established federal law only when we are left with a “firm and definite conviction” that an error has been committed. Van Tran v. Lindsey, 212 F.3d 1143, 1153 (9th Cir.2000).

Because the state courts here did not articulate a rationale for their determination, we cannot review those courts’ “application” of clearly established law. Delgado v. Lewis, 181 F.3d 1087, 1091 (9th Cir.1999). We nonetheless give the same deference to these state court…