Court Opinion

ID: 4455052
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Date Created: 2019-11-12 21:00:31.66644+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       NOV 12 2019
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANDREW P. SHOLTES, Naval                        No.    18-56110
Consolidated Brig,
                                                D.C. No.
                Petitioner-Appellant,           3:18-cv-01330-MMA-BLM

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
RICHARD V. SPENCER, Secretary of the
Navy,

                Respondent-Appellee.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Southern District of California
                   Michael M. Anello, District Judge, Presiding

                          Submitted November 7, 2019**
                              Pasadena, California

Before: FARRIS and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and KENDALL,*** District
Judge.

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      ***
            The Honorable Virginia M. Kendall, United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Illinois, sitting by designation.
      Andrew P. Sholtes (“Sholtes”) appeals the district court's denial of his

petition for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, alleging the military trial judge

erred in failing to admit evidence at trial of the victim's sexual history and

disposition and drug use in violation of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights. The

parties are familiar with the facts, so we do not repeat them here. We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm the district court.

      We review de novo the dismissal of Sholtes’s habeas petition. Alaimalo v.

United States, 645 F.3d 1042, 1047 (9th Cir. 2011) (citation omitted). The narrow

question in reviewing a petition for habeas from a prisoner confined pursuant to a

court martial is whether the military proceedings have “dealt fully and fairly with

an allegation raised in that application.” Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137, 142

(1953).

      The military proceedings easily meet this standard. In a thorough 19-page

analysis, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals ("NMCCA")

addressed Sholtes's claims and sub-claims, identifying the relevant legal standard

and applying it to the facts before making its conclusion. Sholtes does not raise any

new claims not considered by the NMCAA.

      Sholtes additionally argues the district court erred in summarily dismissing

his petition. A district court may summarily dismiss a habeas petition when “it

appears from the application that the applicant or person detained is not entitled” to

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relief. 28 U.S.C. § 2243. It is plain from Sholtes's petition—which incorporates the

NMCAA decision in its entirety— that the military proceedings "fully and fairly"

considered his claims. Thus, the district court did not err when it summarily

dismissed his petition.

      AFFIRMED.

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