
    Kenneth R. KRUSE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Frankie Sue DEL PAPA; E.K. McDaniels, Respondents-Appellees.
    No. 01-16747.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted June 17, 2004.
    Decided June 25, 2004.
    Kenneth R. Kruse, Ely, NV, pro se.
    N. Patrick Flanagan, III, Esq., Jerry Snyder, Esq., Hale Lane Peek Dennison & Howard, Reno, NV, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    David K. Neidert, DAG, Office of the Nevada, Attorney General, Carson City, for Respondents-Appellees.
    Before: HAWKINS, SILVERMAN, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
   MEMORANDUM

Recognizing we have the authority to do so, Marx v. Loral Corp., 87 F.3d 1049, 1055 (9th Cir.1996), we decline to exercise our discretion to allow Petitioner Kenneth Kruse (“Kruse”) to raise an issue he did not raise in any of his appellate or post-conviction review efforts in state or federal court: whether the Nevada Supreme Court properly identified the independent and adequate state grounds upon which it denied relief. See Valerio v. Crawford, 306 F.3d 742 (9th Cir.2002) (en banc), cert. denied, 538 U.S. 994, 123 S.Ct. 1788, 155 L.Ed.2d 695 (2003); Koerner v. Grigas, 328 F.3d 1039 (9th Cir.2003). Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s decision to deny habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254.

AFFIRMED. 
      
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