Belmontes

Volume 1 of

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

FERNANDO BELMONTES, Jr.,  Petitioner-Appellant, No. 01-99018 v. JILL L. BROWN, Warden, for the  D.C. No.

CV-89-00736-DFL

California State Prison at San

OPINION

Quentin,* Respondent-Appellee.  On Remand from the United States Supreme Court

Filed July 15, 2005

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge O’Scannlain

*Jill L. Brown is substituted for her predecessor, Jeanne S. Woodford, as Warden of California State Prison at San Quentin. See Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2). Eric S. Multhaup, Mill Valley, California; Christopher H. Wing, Sacramento, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Mark A. Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

I. PREAMBLE

On July 15, 2003, we filed an opinion in this case holding that there is a reasonable probability that as a result of instruc- tional error the jury did not consider constitutionally mitigat- ing evidence…