Rasberry

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JACKIE ERVIN RASBERRY,  No. 03-15854 Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. v.  CV-01-01907-LKK/ ROSIE B. GARCIA, ET AL., Warden, GGH Respondents-Appellees.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Gregory G. Hollows, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 6, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed May 25, 2006

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Stephen S. Trott and Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Trott

5833 5836 RASBERRY v. GARCIA

COUNSEL

Ann C. McClintock, Assistant Federal Defender, Sacramento, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Mark A. Johnson and Eric L. Christoffersen, Deputy Attor- neys General, Sacramento, California, for the respondents- appellees.

OPINION

TROTT, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, Jackie Ervin Rasberry, appeals the dismissal as untimely of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. Ras- berry contends that he is entitled to equitable tolling because the district court dismissed Rasberry’s wholly…