Stewart

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RONALD TURNEY WILLIAMS, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 01-99015 v. TERRY L. STEWART, Director of  D.C. No.

CV 95-01687-RCB

Arizona Department of

OPINION

Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Robert C. Broomfield, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 17, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed March 28, 2006

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Pamela Ann Rymer and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion COUNSEL

Julie S. Hall, Tucson, Arizona, and Denise I. Young, Tucson, Arizona, for petitioner-appellant Ronald Turney Williams.

Terry Goddard, Attorney General, Phoenix Arizona, Kent E. Cattani, Chief Counsel, Capital Litigation Section, Phoenix, Arizona, and John Pressley Todd, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, Arizona, for respondents-appellees Terry L. Stewart, et al.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Ronald Turney Williams appeals from the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition. A jury convicted him on February 10, 1984, of first degree murder and armed…