Barker

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANTON E. BARKER,  No. 04-35911 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-03134-EFS

GARY FLEMING,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington Edward F. Shea, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 8, 2005—Seattle, Washington

Filed September 8, 2005

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., David R. Thompson, and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge McKeown

12591 BARKER v. FLEMING 12595

COUNSEL

Professor Jacqueline McMurtrie, Lindsay L. Halm, Law Stu- dent, & Lesli S. Wood, Law Student, Innocence Project Northwest Clinic, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, for the appellant.

Gregory J. Rosen, Assistant Attorney General, Attorney Gen- eral’s Office, Criminal Justice Division, Olympia, Washing- ton, for the appellee. 12596 BARKER v. FLEMING

OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

This petition for a writ of habeas corpus presents the ques- tion whether the prosecution in a robbery case suppressed evi- dence in…