Summerlin

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

WARREN WESLEY SUMMERLIN, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 98-99002 v. DORA B. SCHRIRO, Director of  D.C. No.

CV-86-00584-ROS

Arizona Department of

OPINION

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

Argued and Submitted March 22, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed October 17, 2005

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, and Harry Pregerson, Stephen Reinhardt, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Michael Daly Hawkins, Sidney R. Thomas, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges.

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

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COUNSEL

Ken Murray and Leticia Marquez, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Phoenix, Arizona, for the petitioner-appellant.

John Pressley Todd, Attorney General’s Office, Phoenix, Ari- zona, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

THOMAS, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we consider whether petitioner received inef- fective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase of…