Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit December 16, 2004, No. 03-16057 (Briones v. Castro)

MEMORANDUM **

We affirm the district court’s denial of Briones’s habeas petition.

The state court’s decision was neither contrary to, nor an unreasonable application of, federal law as determined by the Supreme Court.1 The state court concluded that the term “specific intent” includes both express and implied malice. We cannot review that determination of state law.