Zavalidroga

MEMORANDUM **

Former federal prisoner Jon Zavalidroga appeals pro se the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of coram nobis, challenging his conviction for transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . Reviewing de novo, see United States v. Walgren, 885 F.2d 1417, 1420 (9th Cir.1989), we affirm.

Zavalidroga contends that the district court erred in denying his writ for coram nobis as time-barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 , because he has never attacked his conviction pursuant to a § 2255 motion in the district court.

In this case, Zavalidroga raises the same claims he previously raised in a time-barred writ of mandamus while he was in federal custody. 1 Because Zavalidroga may not now circumvent § 2255’s statute of limitations by filing a writ of coram nobis, the district court properly denied the instant writ. Matus-Leva v. United States, 287 F.3d 758, 761 (9th Cir.) (stating that a “petitioner may not resort to coram nobis merely because he has failed to meet the AEDPA’s gatekeeping requirements.”), cer t. denied, — U.S. —, 123 S.Ct. 544 , 154 L.Ed.2d 431…