Yee

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RANDALL ALLAN YEE,  No. 05-55265 Petitioner-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-01764-LGB

BILL DUNCAN, Warden,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Lourdes G. Baird, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted February 9, 2006* Pasadena, California

Filed March 28, 2006

Before: Alex Kozinski, Stephen S. Trott, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea

*This case was submitted for decision without oral argument.

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COUNSEL

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kevin R. Vienna, Deputy Attorney General, and Barry J.T. Carlton, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, California, for the respondent-appellant.

Randall Allan Yee, San Luis Obispo, California, pro se.

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

When a criminal defendant has established a prima facie case of gender discrimination in the…