ESTES v. BAKER (2018)

MEMORANDUM **

Nevada state prisoner Donald Glenn Estes appeals the district court’s judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253. We review de novo the denial of a habeas corpus petition, see Fairbank v. Ayers, 650 F.3d 1243, 1250 (9th Cir. 2011), and we affirm.

Estes contends that his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when, after he presented an insanity defense, the trial court allowed the State to introduce rebuttal testimony from witnesses who observed him during his court-ordered competency evaluation. The district court properly denied habeas relief because the Nevada Supreme Court’s rejection of his claim was not contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, nor was it based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in state court. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d); Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402, 107 S.Ct. 2906, 97 L.Ed.2d 336 (1987) (holding that evidence obtained in the course of a pre-trial psychiatric evaluation can be introduced at trial to rebut the defendant’s insanity defense, so long as the evidence does not include incriminating information regarding the facts of the crime).

AFFIRMED.¹

FOOTNOTES

1.   Counsel for the appellee is admonished to provide accurate page references on his Table of Cases and Authorities for the cases on which he relies. For example, Kansas v. Cheever is nowhere to be found on either page 15 or 20. This inaccuracy is not the only mistake.