Court Opinion

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FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION                              DEC 15 2011

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RAYVAUGHN ROYCE EMBRY,                           No. 09-15981

              Petitioner - Appellant,            D.C. No. 1:04-cv-06101-AWI-
                                                 JMD
  v.

G. J. GUIRBINO; TIMOTHY E. BUSBY,                MEMORANDUM *
Warden,

              Respondents - Appellees.

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Eastern District of California
                 Anthony W. Ishii, Chief District Judge, Presiding

                    Argued and Submitted November 16, 2011
                            San Francisco, California

Before: NOONAN and BEA, Circuit Judges, and WALTER, Senior District
Judge.**

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
       **
             The Honorable Donald E. Walter, Senior District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for Western Louisiana, sitting by designation.
      Rayvaughn Royce Embry appeals the district court’s denial of his petition

for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.1

      Because Embry’s habeas petition was filed after April 24, 1996, the petition

is governed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”). 28

U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1); Lambert v. Blodgett, 393 F.3d 943, 964 (9th Cir. 2004).

      The state court identified the correct legal rule, namely that to determine

whether a person was in custody for Miranda purposes, the court must examine the

totality of circumstances surrounding the investigation, Stansbury v. California,

511 U.S. 318, 322 (1994) (citation omitted), and ask whether “a reasonable person

[would] have felt he or she was not at liberty to terminate the interrogation and

leave,” Thompson v. Keohane, 516 U.S. 99, 113 (1995) (internal quotation

omitted).

      The state court noted several factors militating against a finding of custody:

that Embry voluntarily agreed to the interview and asked that it be held at the

police station, that he was informed that he was not under arrest, and that he was

given several breaks during the interview. Near the end of the interview, Embry

asked whether the police were going to arrest him. There was sufficient evidence

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         Because the parties are familiar with the facts of the case, we repeat them
only as necessary to explain our reasoning.

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from which a reasonable fair-minded jurist could determine Embry was not in

custody when he made his admissions.

      AFFIRMED.

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