Case Name: Jeffrey Scott BUATHIER, Defendant-Appellant, v. Gail LEWIS, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, et al., Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-12-11
Citations: 210 F. App'x 663
Docket Number: No. 05-17263
Parties: Jeffrey Scott BUATHIER, Defendant-Appellant, v. Gail LEWIS, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, et al., Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge, FARRIS and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 210
Pages: 663–664

Head Matter:
Jeffrey Scott BUATHIER, Defendant-Appellant, v. Gail LEWIS, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, et al., Respondents-Appellees.
No. 05-17263.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Nov. 14, 2006.
Filed Dec. 11, 2006.
Jeffrey Scott Buathier, Folsom, CA, pro se.
John Ward, Esq., Law Offices of John Ward, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant Appellant.
Robert R. Anderson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Wanda Hill Rouzan, Office of the California Attorney General, Department of Justice, Sacramento, CA, for Respondents-Appellees.
Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge, FARRIS and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jeffrey Scott Buathier was convicted of a methamphetamine violation and sentenced to 25 years to life under California's three strikes law. The district court de nied his petition for habeas corpus in which he contended the sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Buathier is not entitled to relief unless the California court violated clearly-established federal law. See Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (1996). Although the sentence is harsh, it is neither objectively unreasonable nor in violation of any clearly established Supreme Court precedent within the meaning of the habeas statute. See Lockyer v. Andrade, 588 U.S. 63, 123 S.Ct. 1166, 155 L.Ed.2d 144 (2003). Because of Buathier's long criminal history, including three prior residential burglaries, the sentence does not raise an inference of gross disproportionality. Compare Ramirez v. Castro, 365 F.3d 755, 768 (9th Cir.2004) with Rios v. Garcia, 390 F.3d 1082, 1086 (9th Cir.2004).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.