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134 F.3d 378

Docket No. 97-15775.

Moss v. Duncan

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted Jan. 12, 1998.** Decided Jan. 15, 1998.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1998-01-15

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Custis v. United States · Brock v. Weston · Esther Robles Mabitad v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Decided 1998-01-15

NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel.

Before: BROWNING, KLEINFELD, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

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MEMORANDUM*

¶2

Non-capital state petitioner Moss mounts a post-AEDPA collateral attack on his sentence and his attorney's performance, alleging that a constitutionally deficient prior conviction was used to enhance the sentence. With an exception not relevant here, the Supreme Court has explicitly declined to pass on whether prior convictions may be challenged in a habeas attack on the sentence they are used to enhance, leaving no clearly established high court precedent to apply in this case. See Custis v. United States, 114 S.Ct. 1732, 1739 (1994); Brock v. Weston, 31 F.3d 887, 890-91 (9th Cir.1994). This is fatal. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d). And since Moss does not challenge his other prior felony, which alone would allow the enhancement, neither his attorney's performance nor his sentence are infirm.

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AFFIRMED.

The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a); 9th Cir. R. 34-4

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3

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