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Date Created: 2019-05-24 20:00:25.73537+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                         FILED
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      MAY 24 2019
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JONATHON SILVERSKY,                             No.    18-70281

                Applicant,

 v.                                             ORDER*

MICHAEL FLETCHER,

                Respondent.

                     Application to File Second or Successive
                        Petition Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254

                       Argued and Submitted May 14, 2019
                              Seattle, Washington

Before:      HAWKINS, W. FLETCHER, and BENNETT, Circuit Judges.

      Montana state prisoner Jonathon Silversky’s (“Silversky”) application for

authorization to file a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition

is denied.   Silversky has not made a prima facie showing under 28 U.S.C.

§ 2244(b)(2) that:

      (A) the claim relies on a new rule of constitutional law, made
      retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was
      previously unavailable; or

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      (B)(i) the factual predicate for the claim could not have been
      discovered previously through the exercise of due diligence; and (ii) the
      facts underlying the claim, if proven and viewed in light of the evidence
      as a whole, would be sufficient to establish by clear and convincing
      evidence that, but for constitutional error, no reasonable factfinder
      would have found the applicant guilty of the underlying offense.

      Regarding § 2244(b)(2)(A), any rule announced in Williams v. Pennsylvania,

136 S. Ct. 1899 (2016), “regulate[s] only the manner of determining the defendant’s

culpability” and thus is not substantive. Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718,

732 (2016) (alteration in original) (quoting Schriro v. Summerlin, 542 U.S. 348, 353

(2004)). The Supreme Court has not otherwise made Williams retroactive to cases

on collateral review. See Tyler v. Cain, 533 U.S. 656, 665–67 (2001).

      Regarding § 2244(b)(2)(B), Silversky has not identified, let alone articulated

why the newly discovered facts on which his claims rely “could not have been

discovered previously through the exercise of due diligence.”             28 U.S.C.

§ 2244(b)(2)(B). Further, none of his claims, if proven, would show he is “actually

innocent” of the crime to which he pleaded guilty. See King v. Trujillo, 638 F.3d
726 (9th Cir. 2011).

      Silversky’s motion for a ruling on the merits (Dkt. 19) is denied as moot.

      No further filings will be entertained in this case.

      DENIED.

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