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Tyree COUTEE, Petitioner-Appellee, v. James WALKER, Warden, Respondent-Appellant.
    No. 10-55138.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted Nov. 10, 2011.
    Filed Nov. 17, 2011.
    Mark Eibert, Esquire, Half Moon Bay, CA, for Petitioner-Appellee.
    Tyree Coutee, Represa, CA, pro se.
    Marissa A. Bejarano, Office of the California Attorney General, San Diego, CA, for Respondent-Appellant.
    Before: SCHROEDER and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and HUDSON, District Judge.
    
    
      
       The Honorable Henry E. Hudson, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia, sitting by designation.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Warden J. Walker appeals the district court’s grant of Tyree Coutee’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Coutee argued that there was insufficient evidence to support the true finding on a gang enhancement related to his 2006 conviction. The district court issued its opinion prior to the California Supreme Court decision in People v. Albillar, 51 Cal.4th 47, 119 Cal.Rptr.3d 415, 244 P.3d 1062 (2010), which modified the interpretation of CahPenal Code § 186.22(b)(1) previously applied by this court. We hold that the district court, in reliance on these prior opinions, erred in finding that there was insufficient evidence to uphold the enhancement. We hold that the determination by the California Court of Appeal that there was sufficient evidence supporting the enhancement as defined by the California courts was not an objectively unreasonable application of the requirements of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).

REVERSED and REMANDED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.