Case Name: Timothy GASTILE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Robert G. BORG, Warden, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2002-10-28
Citations: 49 F. App'x 735
Docket Number: No. 01-15309; D.C. No. CV-96-00773-FCD
Parties: Timothy GASTILE, Petitioner—Appellant, v. Robert G. BORG, Warden, Respondent—Appellee.
Judges: Before BALDOCK, KLEINFELD, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 49
Pages: 735–736

Head Matter:
Timothy GASTILE, Petitioner—Appellant, v. Robert G. BORG, Warden, Respondent—Appellee.
No. 01-15309.
D.C. No. CV-96-00773-FCD.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Oct. 9, 2002.
Decided Oct. 28, 2002.
Before BALDOCK, KLEINFELD, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
The Honorable Bobby R. Baldock, Senior United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
We reject Gastile's appeal of the denial of his habeas petition. Because Gastile's petition was pending before the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, we do not apply the current version of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d). Nevertheless, even assuming (but not deciding) that counsel's failure to present Dr. McEwen's testimony was ineffective assistance, Gastile cannot demon strate the required prejudice because of the overwhelming evidence of guilt. Counsel was not ineffective in failing to challenge the statement on voluntariness grounds. To find the statement involuntary, we must find police coercion of some sort, and we can discern none.
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 Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
. Lindh v. Murphy, 521 U.S. 320, 322-23, 117 S.Ct. 2059, 138 L.Ed.2d 481 (1997).
. Visciotti v. Woodford, 288 F.3d 1097, 1105 (9th Cir.2002).
. Clabourne v. Lewis, 64 F.3d 1373, 1379 (9th Cir.1995).