Case Name: Horatio Ron TAYLOR, Petitioner-Appellant, v. R.A. CASTRO, Warden, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-08-04
Citations: 140 F. App'x 708
Docket Number: No. 04-55852
Parties: Horatio Ron TAYLOR, Petitioner—Appellant, v. R.A. CASTRO, Warden, Respondent—Appellee.
Judges: Before: O’SCANNLAIN, CALLAHAN and BEA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 140
Pages: 708–708

Head Matter:
Horatio Ron TAYLOR, Petitioner—Appellant, v. R.A. CASTRO, Warden, Respondent—Appellee.
No. 04-55852.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 1, 2005.
Decided Aug. 4, 2005.
Horatio Ron Taylor, Susanville, CA, pro se.
Peggie Bradford Tarwater, AGCA — Office of the California Attorney General, Jeff Dominic Price, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent — Appellee.
Before: O’SCANNLAIN, CALLAHAN and BEA, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
California state prisoner Horatio Ron Taylor appeals the district court's order denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.
Taylor contends that the trial court's admission of testimony from a jailhouse informant violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel under Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201, 84 S.Ct. 1199, 12 L.Ed.2d 246 (1964). The record reflects that the finding of the state trial and appellate courts that the jailhouse informant was not acting as a government agent at the time the challenged statements were made was not unreasonable, and Taylor has failed to rebut this finding by clear and convincing evidence. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2)-(e)(l); cf. Kuhlmann v. Wilson, 477 U.S. 436, 459-60, 106 S.Ct. 2616, 91 L.Ed.2d 364 (1986). Accordingly, the district court properly denied this claim.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.