Bocanegra v. Ayers

MEMORANDUM *

Paul Bocanegra was convicted of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of lying in wait after a fellow passenger in the car in which he was riding shot and Mlled another young man. After exhausting his state court remedies he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court entered judgment for the state. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 and we affirm.

As a threshold matter, we deny Boeanegra’s request that we broaden the certificate of appealability (“COA”) to include claims for which the district court refused to grant…