Horton

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JAMES F. HORTON, II,  No. 03-56618 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-97-07298-MRP

DENEICE MAYLE, Warden,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Mariana R. Pfaelzer, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 7, 2004—Pasadena, California

Filed May 10, 2005

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Pamela Ann Rymer, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Rymer; Opinion by Judge Paez; Dissent by Judge Rymer

5065 5068 HORTON v. MAYLE

COUNSEL

Michael Rubin and Dorothea K. Langsam, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Lance E. Winters, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the respondent-appellee. HORTON v. MAYLE 5069

OPINION

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

James F. Horton, II, a California state prisoner, appeals from the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We agree with the magistrate judge’s analysis, adopted by…