Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit November 15, 2007, No. 07-15273 (Cormier v. Runnels)

MEMORANDUM *

Donte Cormier appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.

Cormier advances four issues on appeal: (1) whether the trial court’s exclusion of evidence of the victim’s prior convictions deprived Cormier of his right to present a defense; (2) whether he was denied effective assistance of trial counsel; (3) whether