Buckley

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BRIAN A. BUCKLEY, 

Petitioner-Appellee, No. 03-55045 v. C.A. TERHUNE, Director of the  D.C. No.

CV-00-02435-JSL

California Department of

OPINION

Corrections, Respondent-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California J. Spencer Letts, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 27, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed March 17, 2006

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Stephen Reinhardt, Alex Kozinski, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Raymond C. Fisher, Richard A. Paez, Marsha S. Berzon, Richard C. Tallman, Jay S. Bybee, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt; Dissent by Judge Callahan COUNSEL

Allen Bloom, San Diego, California, for the petitioner- appellee.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General; Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Noah P. Hill, Deputy Attorney General; Los Angeles, California, for the respondent-…