Case Name: Johnny Coval SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ken CLARK, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-03-26
Citations: 372 F. App'x 731
Docket Number: No. 07-55837
Parties: Johnny Coval SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ken CLARK, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, PREGERSON, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 372
Pages: 731–731

Head Matter:
Johnny Coval SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ken CLARK, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 07-55837.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 16, 2010.
Filed March 26, 2010.
Johnny Coval Smith, Tehachapi, CA, pro se.
Before: SCHROEDER, PREGERSON, and RAWLINSON, 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 Johnny Coval Smith appeals pro se from the district court's judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.
Smith contends that the California Department of Corrections ("CDC") miscalculated his sentencing credits under California law, and thus violated the Ex Post Facto Clause, the Sixth and Eighth Amendments, and the Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection. We agree with the district court that Smith failed to raise a cognizable federal claim, and that he failed to show a deprivation of a federally protected right. Smith failed to demonstrate that the CDC's decision not to apply sentencing credits to his life sentence was contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law, or that it was based on an unreasonable determination of facts in light of the evidence before it. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1); see also Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 67-68, 112 S.Ct. 475, 116 L.Ed.2d 385 (1991).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.