Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit January 29, 2008, No. 07-35139 (Hess v. Hill)

*638MEMORANDUM **

Willie Fern Hess appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for habeas corpus. In this petition, Hess challenges the November 2001 decision of the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision (“Board”) to postpone his parole release date because it found that he exhibits “a psychiatric or psychological diagnosis of a present severe emotional