Inthavong

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

OSA INTHAVONG,  No. 03-57075 Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. v.  CV-01-01669- ANTHONY LAMARQUE, Warden; BILL JTM/LSP LOCKYER, Attorney General,

OPINION

Respondents-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Jeffrey T. Miller, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 14, 2005—Pasadena, California

Filed August 23, 2005

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges, and Charles R. Weiner,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

*The Honorable Charles R. Weiner, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.

11257 11260 INTHAVONG v. LAMARQUE

COUNSEL

Janice M. Deaton, San Diego, California, argued the cause for the petitioner-appellant and was on the briefs.

Elizabeth A. Hartwig, Office of the Attorney General of Cali- fornia, San Diego, California, argued the cause for the respondents-appellees; Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Rob- ert R. Anderson, Gary W. Schons, Gary W.…