Crawley

*564 MEMORANDUM **

California state prisoner Jon Randall Crawley appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment denying his habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 . We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253. We review the state-court record independently, see Plascencia v. Alameida, 467 F.3d 1190, 1198 (9th Cir.2006), and the district court’s decision de novo. See Sass v. Cal. Bd. of Prison Terms, 461 F.3d 1123, 1126 (9th Cir.2006). We affirm.

We reject as foreclosed the State’s contention that we lack jurisdiction over this appeal because Crawley did not obtain a certificate of appealability. See Rosas v. Nielsen, 428 F.3d 1229, 1231-32 (9th Cir.2005) (per curiam).

Crawley contends that the California Board of Prison Terms’s (the “Board”) 2003 decision denying him parole violates his due process rights. Our review of the record indicates that “some evidence” supports the Board’s decision that Crawley was not then suitable for parole. See Sass, 461 F.3d at 1129 . The “some evidence” standard does not allow us to entertain Crawley’s contentions regarding how the Board evaluated the evidence it had before it when it made its suitability determination. See…