Hayes

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BLUFFORD HAYES, JR., 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 99-99030 v. D.C. No. JILL BROWN, Warden of the  CV-92-00603- California State Prison at San GGH P Quentin,* OPINION Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California David F. Levi, District Judge, Presiding

Argued June 6, 2002 Submitted June 14, 2002 Filed August 26, 2002 Opinion Vacated and Rehearing En Banc Granted August 26, 2004 Argued and Re-submitted En Banc October 12, 2004

Filed March 7, 2005

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, and Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Sidney R. Thomas, Susan P. Graber, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, Richard C. Tallman, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

*Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 43(c)(2), we sua sponte substitute Jill Brown for Jeanne Woodward as the respondent in this action.

2753 2754 HAYES v. BROWN Opinion by Judge Thomas; Partial Concurrence…