Runnels

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TERRY DARNELL WILLIAMS, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 04-55830 v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-03301-SVW

D. L. RUNNELS, Warden; BILL

LOCKYER, OPINION

Respondents-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued March 10, 2005 Submitted December 28, 2005 Pasadena, California

Filed January 5, 2006

Before: Edward Leavy, Susan P. Graber, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Callahan COUNSEL

Maria E. Stratton, Federal Public Defender, and Michael Tanaka, Deputy Federal Public Defender, of Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Brad D. Leve- son, Deputy Attorney General, and Stephanie A. Miyoshi, WILLIAMS v. RUNNELS Deputy Attorney General, of Los Angeles, California, for the respondents.

OPINION

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:

Appellant,…