Mancebo

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARK MANCEBO, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 04-17167 v. DERRAL G. ADAMS; ATTORNEY  D.C. No.

CV-01-05600-JKS

GENERAL OF THE STATE OF

OPINION

CALIFORNIA; E. MEYERS,

Respondents-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California James K. Singleton, Chief Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 19, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed January 12, 2006

Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge D.W. Nelson COUNSEL

Carrie Leonetti, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Fresno, California, for defendant-appellant Mark Mancebo.

Brian Alvarez, Office of the California Attorney General, Fresno, California, for the respondents-appellees.

OPINION

D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Mark C. Mancebo brings this petition to challenge the denial by the federal district court of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Mancebo is currently serving an indeterminate term sentence of fifteen years to life for his conviction for second-degree…