Case Name: Dario L. CANNON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gerald JANDA, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-08-05
Citations: 668 F. App'x 217
Docket Number: No. 15-15374
Parties: Dario L. CANNON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gerald JANDA, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: Before: GRABER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and EDMUNDS , Senior District Judge,
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 668
Pages: 217–218

Head Matter:
Dario L. CANNON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gerald JANDA, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 15-15374
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted July 19, 2016 San Francisco, California
FILED August 05, 2016
Amended September 9, 2016
Stephen B. Bedrick, Esquire, Law Office of Stephen B. Bedrick, Oakland, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant
Pamela Kay Critchfield, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent-Appellee
Before: GRABER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and EDMUNDS , Senior District Judge,
The Honorable Nancy G. Edmunds, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
AMENDED MEMORANDUM
Petitioner Dario L. Cannon appeals the denial of his habeas petition, alleging that the Alameda County Superior Court failed to properly conduct the inquiry required by Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), after the prosecution exercised peremptory strikes against all seven minority veniremembers. On appeal, Cannon pursues only the Bat-son claim with respect to three potential jurors. Cannon further alleges that the trial court erred when finding that the reasons offered by the prosecution for the strikes were race-neutral. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
1.The California Court of Appeal reasonably ruled that the trial court applied the proper legal standards established by the United States Supreme Court. The trial court's references to California cases did not taint the analysis, as our review of the record reveals that the trial court did not ignore Batson's third step. See Johnson v. California, 645 U.S. 162, 165, 171— 72, 125 S.Ct. 2410, 162 L.Ed.2d 129 (2005). Further, the trial court expressly found that the prosecutor was "truthful" in describing her race-neutral reasons for the strikes. No clearly established precedent required the trial court to do more when analyzing a Batson challenge. See, e.g., id.; Snyder v. Louisiana, 552 U.S, 472, 477-79, 485-86, 128 S.Ct. 1203, 170 L.Ed.2d 175 (2008).
2. Nor has Cannon- shown that the California Court of Appeal was unreasonable in deferring to the trial court's judgment in light of the evidence presented. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2). Our review is "doubly deferential," in that we must uphold the ruling unless it was "objectively unreasonable" to conclude that substantial evidence supported the trial court's credibility determination. See Briggs v. Grounds, 682 F.3d 1165, 1170 (9th Cir. 2012). Because the record supports the conclusion that the prosecution's strikes did not rest on an impermissible ground, the state appellate court was not "objectively unreasonable in concluding that [the] trial court's credibility determination was supported by' substantial evidence." Id.
3. All remaining issues on which a certificate of appealability was granted other than those pertaining to the three venire-members have been waived by Cannon's failure to argue them in the opening brief on appeal. Styers v. Schriro, 547 F.3d 1026, 1028 n.3 (9th Cir. 2008) (per curiam).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R, 36-3.