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Joseph P. GUTIERREZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. A. P. KANE; Board of Prisons Terms Commissioners, Respondents-Appellees.
    No. 07-15812.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 29, 2010.
    
    Filed July 21, 2010.
    Joseph P. Gutierrez, Soledad, CA, pro se.
    Patricia Webber Heim, Esq., Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Respondents-Appel-lees.
    Before: ALARCÓN, LEAVY, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Joseph P. Gutierrez appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.

Gutierrez contends that the applicable standard to review parole decisions by the California Board of Prison Terms (“the Board”) is preponderance of the evidence. This argument is foreclosed by Hayward v. Marshall, 603 F.3d 546, 562-63, 569 (9th Cir.2010) (en banc). He further argues that the Board’s 2003 decision to deny him parole did not have evidentiary support. Because the district court did not have the benefit of this court’s en banc opinion in Hayiuard at the time of its decision, we vacate the judgment insofar as the district court concluded that “some evidence” supports the denial of parole, and remand for further proceedings and development of the record. See id. (stating that under California’s parole scheme the paramount consideration is whether the prisoner poses a current threat to public safety).

Gutierrez maintains that the district court erred by declining to address his claim that the Board is biased and improperly denies parole on a routine basis. The record indicates that the district court did not err and Gutierrez fails to show he was entitled to an evidentiary hearing as to this claim. See Insyxiengmay v. Morgan, 403 F.3d 657, 669-70 (9th Cir.2005).

AFFIRMED in part; VACATED in part and remanded for further proceedings. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.