Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee, v. Timothy Dean SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-02-24
Citations: 415 F. App'x 826
Docket Number: No. 08-35293
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee, v. Timothy Dean SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant.
Judges: Before: B. FLETCHER, PAEZ, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 415
Pages: 826–828

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee, v. Timothy Dean SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant.
No. 08-35293.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Feb. 10, 2011.
Filed Feb. 24, 2011.
Frank Papagni, Office of U.S. Attorney, Eugene, OR, Kelly A. Zusman, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Portland, OR, for Respondent-Appellee.
Per C. Olson, Hoevet Boise & Olson PC, Portland, OR, for Petitioner-Appellant.
Before: B. FLETCHER, PAEZ, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Timothy Smith appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 habe-as petition and request for an evidentiary hearing. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm.
The district court did not err in rejecting Smith's ineffective assistance of counsel claim premised on failure to argue that the police lacked consent to search his entire car, or in denying Smith's motion for an evidentiary hearing on this claim, because Smith failed to allege "specific facts which, if true, would entitle him to relief." United States v. Howard, 381 F.3d 873, 877 (9th Cir.2004). Even if Smith's claim that he did not consent to a search of the entire car was meritorious, the district court considering Smith's sup pression motion correctly concluded that the police had probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of his truck, based on the following: (1) the "Attempt to Locate" alert for a man meeting Smith's description and a royal blue Dodge Dakota pickup, which were suspected of involvement in a string of burglaries; (2) an off-duty officer's observation of Smith "casing" residences in a royal blue Dodge Dakota pickup; and (3) the arresting officer's detection of a Sawzall and three screwdrivers, tools of the kind he knew burglars use to enter buildings, during a limited search that Smith admits was consensual. See United States v. Brooks, 610 F.3d 1186, 1193 (9th Cir.2010); United States v. Gonzales, 749 F.2d 1329, 1337 (9th Cir.1984). Because the district court correctly denied Smith's suppression motion on this alternate ground, any error by Smith's counsel in raising Smith's lack of consent claim would not have affected the outcome of the suppression motion. Therefore, Smith's ineffective assistance of counsel claim cannot prevail. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 694, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).
The district court also did not err in denying Smith's claim that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to investigate, obtain, and present additional evidence that his prior burglary conviction did not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act. See generally Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 601-02, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990). The Supreme Court has not indicated that evidence outside the narrow category of documents permitted by Taylor and Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13, 26, 125 S.Ct. 1254, 161 L.Ed.2d 205 (2005), may be presented by the defense, and therefore Smith's proffered evidence was plainly inadmissible. See United States v. Carona-Sanchez, 291 F.3d 1201, 1211 (9th Cir.2002) (en banc), superseded on other grounds by U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2, cmt. n. 4 (2002); United States v. Pallares-Galan, 359 F.3d 1088, 1099 (9th Cir.2004). Nor did Smith have a due process right to conduct the sort of "evidentiary enquirfy] into the factual basis for the earlier conviction," Shepard, 544 U.S. at 20, 125 S.Ct. 1254, that the Court rejected in Taylor and again in Shepard. Accordingly, counsel's representation was not deficient relative to extant professional norms. Strickland, 466 U.S. at 687-88, 104 S.Ct. 2052.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.