Case Name: Daniel Allen BLUNT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. YATES, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-01-07
Citations: 408 F. App'x 57
Docket Number: No. 09-15628
Parties: Daniel Allen BLUNT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. YATES, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 408
Pages: 57–58

Head Matter:
Daniel Allen BLUNT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. YATES, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 09-15628.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 14, 2010.
Filed Jan. 7, 2011.
Daniel Allen Blunt, Coalinga, CA, pro se.
Barton Bowers, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, AGCA-Offiee of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for Respondents-Appellees.
Before: GOODWIN, WALLACE, and THOMAS, 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
California state prisoner Daniel Allen Blunt appeals pro se from the district court's judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.
Blunt contends that there is insufficient evidence to support the jury's verdicts convicting him of burglary and murder. The California court's conclusion that there was sufficient evidence to allow a reasonable trier of fact to find Blunt guilty beyond a reasonable doubt was not contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established Supreme Court law, and was not an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d); see also Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).
Blunt also contends that he received ineffective assistance because his counsel failed to object to the admission of a witness' pretrial statement on the basis that it was involuntarily coerced. The California court's conclusion that Blunt did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel because such a challenge to the witness' statement would have been fruitless was not contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established Supreme Court law, and was not an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d); see also Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687-88, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).
Blunt further contends that the prosecutor engaged in misconduct by introducing false evidence. However, it was not misconduct for the prosecutor to introduce the witness' prior inconsistent statement because it was unclear which of the witness' versions of the events was true and therefore the prosecutor did not knowingly use false evidence. See United States v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667, 678, 105 S.Ct. 3375, 87 L.Ed.2d 481 (1985).
The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Blunt's request for an evidentiary hearing. See Perez v. Rosario, 459 F.3d 943, 953 (9th Cir.2006).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.