Juan

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JUAN H.,  No. 04-15562 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-02018-CW

WALTER ALLEN III,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Claudia Wilken, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 8, 2004—San Francisco, California

Filed June 2, 2005

Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould COUNSEL

Jonathan Grossman, Santa Clara, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General for the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General for the State of California, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attor- ney General for the State of California, Gregory A. Ott, Dep- uty Attorney General for the State of California, Moona Nandi, Supervising Deputy Attorney General for the State of California, for the respondent-appellee. 6064 JUAN H. v. ALLEN

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Juan H. appeals…