Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit September 29, 2004, No. 03-15098; D.C. No. CV-00-02524-PJH (Barnes v. Terhune)

MEMORANDUM **

We affirm the district court’s denial of Barnes’s petition for habeas corpus.

*562First, the state court did not unreasonably apply clearly established federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court, when it found that the state had rebutted the presumption that a juror’s ex parte communications prejudiced Barnes.