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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KEITH MacMEEKIN,

Petitioner,

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BEN CURRY, Warden,

Respondent. 

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No. C 07-3771 CRB (PR)

ORDER GRANTING 

CERTIFICATE OF

APPEALABILITY AS TO

ONE CLAIM

Per order filed on July 7, 2010, the Ninth Circuit remanded this case to the

district court for the limited purpose of granting or denying a certificate of

appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) and Federal Rule of Appellate

Procedure 22(b). 

A COA is granted as to petitioner's claim that the California Board of

Parole Hearings' March 14, 2006 decision to deny him parole is not supported by

some evidence. Cf. Pirtle v. California Bd. of Prison Terms, No. 07-16097, 2010

WL 2732888, at *8 (9th Cir. July 12, 2010) (holding that board's decision to deny

parole was not supported by some evidence of current dangerousness because

board's stated reasons for denial of parole either lacked evidentiary support or

had no rational relationship to petitioner's current dangerousness); Cooke v.

Solis, 606 F.3d 1206, 1215-16 (9th Cir. 2010) (same). But a COA is denied as to

petitioner's other claims because it cannot be said that "reasonable jurists would

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find the district court’s assessment of [those] constitutional claims debatable or

wrong." Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000). 

The clerk shall close the file and forward to the Ninth Circuit the case file

with this order. See United States v. Asrar, 116 F.3d 1268, 1270 (9th Cir. 1997). 

SO ORDERED.

DATED: Aug. 6, 2010 

CHARLES R. BREYER

United States District Judge

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