
    Joseph Bernard PONDER, Petitioner—Appellant, v. Robert O. LAMPERT, Respondent—Appellee.
    No. 04-35477.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted March 23, 2005.
    
    Decided April 4, 2005.
    Thomas J. Hester, FPDOR—Federal Public Defender’s Office (Portland), Portland, OR, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    
      Ryan P. Kahn, Leonard W. Williamson, Esq., AGOR—Office of the Oregon Attorney General (Salem), Salem, OR, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before: B. FLETCHER, TROTT, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Joseph Bernard Ponder, an Oregon state prisoner, appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for failure to exhaust. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed the instant § 2254 petition for failure to exhaust, because the only instance in which Ponder presented the instant claim to the Oregon Supreme Court was via an improper procedural vehicle. See Roettgen v. Copeland, 33 F.3d 36, 38 (9th Cir.1994) (per curiam) (holding that petitioner failed to exhaust state remedies when he presented claim in the state habeas petition instead of Ariz. Rule 32 post-conviction proceeding); Peterson v. Lampert, 319 F.3d 1153, 1154 (9th Cir.2003) (holding that petitioner did not fairly present his ineffective assistance claim to the Oregon Supreme Court and therefore failed to exhaust).

AFFIRMED. 
      
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