Case Name: James CARLIN, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Vince CULLEN, Acting Warden, Respondent-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-06-09
Citations: 437 F. App'x 607
Docket Number: No. 08-16813
Parties: James CARLIN, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Vince CULLEN, Acting Warden, Respondent-Appellant.
Judges: Before: PREGERSON, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 437
Pages: 607–608

Head Matter:
James CARLIN, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Vince CULLEN, Acting Warden, Respondent-Appellant.
No. 08-16813.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 24, 2011.
Filed June 9, 2011.
Margaret Joan Littlefield, Law Office of Michael Satris, Bolinas, CA, for Petitioner-Appellee.
Denise A. Yates, Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent-Appellant.
Before: PREGERSON, THOMAS, and PAEZ, 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
Warden Vince Cullen appeals from the district court's grant of James Carlin's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for habeas corpus. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we reverse and remand.
The district court granted Carlin relief on the ground that the state courts had unreasonably applied clearly established federal law concerning due process, by failing to satisfy California's "some evidence" standard. While this appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decided Swarthout v. Cooke, — U.S. -, 131 S.Ct. 859, 178 L.Ed.2d 732 (2011) (per curiam). In that case, the Court held that "it is no federal concern . whether California's 'some evidence' rule of judicial review (a procedure beyond what the Constitution demands) was correctly applied." Id. at 863. We accordingly reverse the grant of relief.
Carlin argues that reversal is not required because the federal Constitution requires a showing of some evidence of future dangerousness before states can deny parole, and such evidence was lacking here. This contention is foreclosed. See id. at 862-63; Pearson v. Muntz, 639 F.3d 1185, 1191 (9th Cir.2011).
We remand for further proceedings on Carlin's remaining claims.
REVERSED and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
. As the district court correctly held, Carlin's petition is timely. The statute of limitations was triggered on the date his administrative appeal was denied. See Redd v. McGrath, 343 F.3d 1077, 1082 (9th Cir.2003). Applying statutory tolling to the period of time during which his state petitions were pending after that date, and gap tolling to the short period of time between his petitions, his federal petition is timely. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1).