In Schroeder v. Tilton, No. 06-15391, the Ninth Circuit rejected an Ex Post Facto challenge to a retroactive change in California evidence law. The change broadened the admissibility of prior sex offenses in sex crime cases. The state court found the change distinguishable from the one in Carmell v. Texas, 529 U.S. 513 (2000). "The decision of the California courts was neither contrary to nor an unreasonable application of clearly established Supreme Court law under Carmell."