Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

SEP 2 2022

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JAIME HOYOS, No. 17-99009

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. 3:09-cv-00388-L-NLS v.

RONALD DAVIS, Warden, California MEMORANDUM* State Prison at San Quentin,

Respondent-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California M. James Lorenz, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 23, 2022 Pasadena, California

Before: IKUTA, CHRISTEN, and BUMATAY, Circuit Judges.

Jaime Hoyos appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254

habeas corpus petition in which he sought relief from his state-court convictions

and death sentence. Hoyos raises several certified claims on appeal. We address

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. all but his Batson claim here.1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291

and 2253, and we affirm the district court’s denial of Hoyos’s habeas petition.

We review de novo a…