Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit June 15, 2005, No. 04-16042 (Buffer v. Hubbard)

MEMORANDUM **

The appellant, Kenneth Ray Buffer, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Buffer’s habeas petition is subject to the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996).

The California Court of Appeal concluded, in part, that the record does not support a voluntary manslaughter instruction.