DAVIS v. DUCART (2019)

MEMORANDUM **

California state prisoner William Jovian Davis appeals from the district court’s judgment denying his habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We review de novo the district court’s denial of Davis’s petition, see Emery v. Clark, 643 F.3d 1210, 1213 (9th Cir. 2011), and we affirm.

Davis contends that the sentencing enhancement imposed under Cal. Penal Code § 186.22(b)(1) was not supported by sufficient evidence. On this record, the California Court of Appeal’s determination that there was sufficient evidence to support all elements of the gang enhancement was neither contrary to nor an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law, nor based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d); Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 324, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979); Johnson v. Montgomery, 899 F.3d 1052, 1056-60 (9th Cir. 2018); see also Coleman v. Johnson, 566 U.S. 650, 651, 132 S.Ct. 2060, 182 L.Ed.2d 978 (2012) (per curiam) (“We have made clear that Jackson claims face a high bar in federal habeas proceedings because they are subject to two layers of judicial deference.”).

We construe Davis’s additional argument concerning the denial of an evidentiary hearing as a motion to expand the certificate of appealability. So construed, the motion is denied. See 9th Cir. R. 22-1(e); Hiivala v. Wood, 195 F.3d 1098, 1104-05 (9th Cir. 1999).

AFFIRMED.