Case Name: Gerardo CASTILLO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. LEGRAND and Nevada Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-10-03
Citations: 658 F. App'x 332
Docket Number: No. 14-16341
Parties: Gerardo CASTILLO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. LEGRAND and Nevada Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before: TASHIMA, SILVERMAN, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 658
Pages: 332–332

Head Matter:
Gerardo CASTILLO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. LEGRAND and Nevada Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 14-16341
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted September 27, 2016
Filed October 03, 2016
Jeremy Baron, Federal Public Defender’s Office Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV.
Daniel M. Roche, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Carson City, NV.
Before: TASHIMA, SILVERMAN, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Nevada state prisoner Gerardo Castillo appeals from the district court's judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We review de novo a dismissal for failure to exhaust, see Rhoades v. Henry, 638 F.3d 1027, 1034 (9th Cir. 2011), and we vacate and remand.
Castillo contends that the district court erred in dismissing his habeas petition as unexhausted because it had discretion to stay the proceedings. After the district court dismissed Castillo's petition, .this court held in Mena v. Long, 813 F.3d 907, 912 (9th Cir. 2016), that a "district court has the discretion to stay and hold in abeyance fully unexhausted petitions under the circumstances set forth in Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 [125 S.Ct. 1528, 161 L.Ed.2d 440] (2005)." We, therefore, vacate and remand for the district court to determine in the first instance whether Castillo is entitled to a stay and for any further proceedings.
Castillo's request for judicial notice of state court records is granted.
VACATED and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.