Case Name: Ronald Wesley CHURCH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. State of ARIZONA and Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-01-22
Citations: 504 F. App'x 654
Docket Number: No. 11-17374
Parties: Ronald Wesley CHURCH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. State of ARIZONA and Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before: WALLACE, FARRIS, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 504
Pages: 654–655

Head Matter:
Ronald Wesley CHURCH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. State of ARIZONA and Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 11-17374.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 15, 2013.
Filed Jan. 22, 2013.
Philip Edward Hantel, Esquire, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioner-Appellant.
William S. Simon, Assistant Attorney General, Arizona Attorney General’s Office, Phoenix, AZ, for Respondents-Appel-lees.
Before: WALLACE, FARRIS, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concluded that this case was suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Ronald Wesley Church appeals from the district court's order denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 2253(a). We affirm.
We conclude that there is insufficient evidence to find that Church's counsel performed deficiently. Even if Church's counsel had performed deficiently in failing to adequately inform the state trial court as to Church's conditional competency and judicially mandated requirement to take competency-restoring medication, however, Church has failed to show prejudice because the state trial judge engaged in an extended colloquy with Church to evaluate Church's competency on the day of trial, which questioning confirmed to the trial judge that Church was competent. Given the trial court's first-hand evaluation of Church on the day of trial, we conclude that there is no reasonable probability that if Church's counsel had presented complete information to the trial court as to his conditional competency and asked for a continuance on that basis that the trial court would have granted such a continuance. We thus conclude that the last reasoned Arizona state court decision denying Church post-conviction relief was not contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d); see also Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687, 694-96, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.