Case Name: Samuel E. PARRIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. D.K. SISTO; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-03-03
Citations: 368 F. App'x 829
Docket Number: No. 09-15498
Parties: Samuel E. PARRIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. D.K. SISTO; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 368
Pages: 829–830

Head Matter:
Samuel E. PARRIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. D.K. SISTO; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 09-15498.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 16, 2010.
Filed March 3, 2010.
Samuel E. Parris, Vacaville, CA, pro se.
Christina Diane Hitomi, Deputy Attorney General, AGCA — Office of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for Respondents-Appellees.
Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, 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 Samuel E. Par-ris appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.
Parris contends that several extraordinary circumstances prevented his timely filing of a federal habeas petition and that equitable tolling was warranted. The district court did not err when it dismissed Parris' habeas petition as untimely. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1). Parris is not entitled to equitable tolling because he has failed to show that he had been pursuing his rights diligently and that extraordinary circumstances prevented him from timely filing his federal habeas petition. See Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408, 418, 125 S.Ct. 1807, 161 L.Ed.2d 669 (2005). The district court also did not abuse its discretion when it declined to hold an evi-dentiary hearing regarding Parris' assertions of diligence and mental incapacity because the record is sufficiently developed to allow this Court to evaluate Parris' arguments. See Williams v. Woodford, 384 F.3d 567, 591 (9th Cir.2004) (holding that an evidentiary hearing is not warranted where "the documentary evidence submitted fully presented the relevant facts of [petitioner's] claim" and where an eviden-tiary hearing "would not offer any reason able chance of altering [the district court's] view of the facts.").
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.