Martinez

MEMORANDUM **

California state prisoner Duncan G.J. Martinez appeals pro se from the district court’s order dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition as untimely. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253 . Reviewing de novo, Miles v. Prunty, 187 F.3d 1104, 1105 (9th Cir.1999), we affirm.

Because the California Supreme Court ultimately denied Martinez’s second round *652 of state post-conviction petitions as untimely, Martinez was not entitled to statutory tolling during the gap between the date the California Superior Court denied his second state habeas petition, and the filing of his section 2254 petition in district court. See Pace v. DiGuglielmo, — U.S. -, -, 125 S.Ct. 1807, 1814 , 161 L.Ed.2d 669 (2005) (holding that “[because the state court rejected petitioner’s [state] petition as untimely, it was not ‘properly filed,’ and [petitioner was] not entitled to statutory tolling under § 2244(d)(2)”); see also Carey v. Saffold, 536 U.S. 214, 225-26 , 122 S.Ct. 2134 , 153 L.Ed.2d 260 (2002) (noting that if the California Supreme Court expressly holds delay was unreasonable, petition is no longer “pending”). Therefore, we agree with the district court that…