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Terrance Lamont MOORE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Andre MATEVOUSIAN, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 15-15421
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted October 25, 2016 
    
    Filed November 01, 2016
    Terrance Lamont Moore, Pro Se
    Amanda H. Beck, USSAC—Office of the US Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for Respondent-Appellee
    Before: LEAVY, GRABER, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Terrance L. Moore appeals, pro se, from the district court’s dismissal of his petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Reviewing de novo, we affirm. See Alaimalo v. United States, 645 F.3d 1042, 1047 (9th Cir. 2011).

Moore argues that the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) improperly relied on 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)(i) to determine his projected release date and thereby erroneously calculated his sentence, exceeded its statutory authority, and violated his due process and equal protection rights by enforcing an invalid judgment. Moore’s argument is premised on his incorrect belief that he is not subject to 25-year consecutive sentences for his second, third, and fourth section 924(c) convictions because he was not charged and convicted under section 924(c)(1)(C)(i). However, because the record shows, and Moore does not dispute, that he was convicted, inter alia, of four counts of violating section 924(c), the BOP properly calculated his release date based on his correctly calculated 1,107-month sentence. See United States v. Beltran-Moreno, 556 F.3d 913, 915 (9th Cir. 2009) (“[W]hen the government charges more than one § 924(c) offense in a single indictment, each additional count is to be treated as a ‘second or subsequent conviction’ for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)(i) and therefore carries a mandatory minimum sentence of .twenty-five years.”). Thus, the district court correctly denied relief on Moore’s claim that BOP improperly calculated his sentence and release date as frivolous.

Insofar as Moore challenges the sentencing court’s calculation of his sentence, he has not obtained a certificate of appeal-ability and we decline to grant one. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000); Harrison v. Ollison, 519 F.3d 952, 958 (9th Cir. 2008).

Moore’s “Amended Motion Relating Back to Habeas Claim in Opening Brief’ is granted.

AFFIRMED. 
      
       xiiis disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.