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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Guy Christopher BROOKS, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 08-56637.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Sept. 13, 2010.
    
    Filed Oct. 5, 2010.
    Michael J. Raphael, Esquire, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, Douglas F. McCormick, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Santa Ana, CA for Plaintiff-Ap-pellee.
    Guy Christopher Brooks, Lompoc, CA, pro se.
    Before: SILVERMAN, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Federal prisoner Guy Christopher Brooks appeals pro se from the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging his 2002 jury-trial conviction for bank robbery and his sentence of 210 months imprisonment. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(a), and we affirm.

Brooks contends that his trial and appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance when they failed to challenge the district court’s reliance on the Presentence Report (“PSR”) to substantiate a 1990 state burglary conviction used as part of the basis for Brooks’s “career offender” enhancement under United States Sentencing Guidelines (“U.S.S.G.”) sections 4B1.1 and 4B1.2. Brooks does not challenge the PSR’s factual accuracy but argues that the PSR was not a judicially noticeable document that the trial court could rely on in imposing a career offender enhancement.

Brooks’s contention that the undisputed PSR was insufficient to establish the predicate burglary conviction is foreclosed. See United States v. Romero-Rendon, 220 F.3d 1159, 1160, 1161, 1163 (9th Cir.2000). Accordingly, counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise this argument in the district court or on appeal. See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687-88, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).

We construe Brooks’s remaining arguments as a motion to expand the certificate of appealability, and we deny the motion, as Brooks has made no substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2); Hiivala v. Wood, 195 F.3d 1098, 1104 (9th Cir.1999); 9th Cir. R. 22-1(e).

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