Cooks

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RAYMOND I. COOKS,  No. 03-56326 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-00-00541-VAP

A. C. NEWLAND, Warden,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Virginia A. Phillips, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 8, 2004—Pasadena, California

Filed January 19, 2005

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Thomas G. Nelson, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace COUNSEL

Andrew E. Rubin, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner- appellant.

David F. Glassman, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

State prisoner Cooks appeals from the district court’s judg- ment denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He argues that the California Court of Appeal unreasonably applied Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), and Gid- eon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), when it affirmed his robbery convictions. Cooks contends that the state trial court…