MEMORANDUM **

Kevin Antonio Williams appeals the district court’s denial of his habeas petition. Williams claims that the state trial court erred in refusing to reconsider its denial of his first Batson challenge given that the court subsequently found a prima facie case of discrimination with regard to the second struck juror. 1 As the facts and procedural history are familiar to the parties, we do not recite them here except as necessary to explain our decision. This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We affirm.

Williams’s procedural claim regarding sequential Batson challenges has not yet been squarely addressed by the United States Supreme Court, so we must defer to the state court’s resolution of the issue. 2 See Moses v. Payne, 555 F.3d 742, 758-59 (9th Cir. 2009). Contrary to Williams’s suggestion, Batson’s general requirement that the trial court assess “all relevant circumstances” in deciding whether a defendant has made a prima facie case for discrimination does not “squarely address” the specific question whether a court must reconsider its denial of a Batson motion with regard to one juror if it subsequently finds a prima facie case of discrimination with regard to a different juror. Cf. Gonzalez v. Brown, 585 F.3d 1202, 1208 n. 4 (9th Cir. 2009) (deferring to state court because the “closest thing to guidance in [ ] Batson ” did not announce a “per se” rule squarely addressing petitioner’s claim). In fact, in Batson, the Supreme Court explicitly declined to “formulate particular procedures to be followed upon a defendant’s timely objection to a prosecutor’s challenges.” Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 99, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986); see also id. at 99 n. 24, 106 S.Ct. 1712 (“In light of the variety of jury selection practices followed in our state and federal trial courts, we make no attempt to instruct these courts how best to implement our holding today.”). 3

*399 Therefore, in light of “the absence of any clear contrary declaration from the United States Supreme Court, we cannot hold under the AEDPA that the California Court of Appeal unreasonably applied Bat-son ” when it upheld the trial court’s refusal to reconsider a previously rejected Bat-son challenge after finding a prima facie case of discrimination with respect to a subsequent juror. Gonzalez 585 F.3d at 1209.

AFFIRMED.