Fowler

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JEFF FOWLER, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 04-15885 v. D.C. No.

SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S  CV-00-02195-

DEPARTMENT; CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY MCE/PAN

GENERAL, OPINION

Respondents-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Morrison C. England, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 14, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed August 31, 2005

Before: Richard C. Tallman, Jay S. Bybee, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea

11925 FOWLER v. SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEP’T 11929

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir and Allison Claire, Office of the Federal Defender, Sacramento, California, for petitioner-appellant Jeff Fowler.

Bill Lockyer, Robert R. Anderson, Mary Jo Graves, John G. Mclean and George M. Hendrickson, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, California, for respondent-appellee the State of California.

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Jeff Fowler was convicted of…