Roy

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ALBERT ROY, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 04-35514 v.  D.C. No.

ROBERT O. LAMPERT, CV-01-00861-CO

Respondent-Appellee. 

PHILLIP L. KEPHART, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 04-35626 v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-00690-CO

STAN CZERNIAK, Superintendent,

OSP, OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon John P. Cooney, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 5, 2005—Portland, Oregon

Filed July 12, 2006

Before: James R. Browning, Dorothy W. Nelson, and Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge D.W. Nelson COUNSEL

Anthony D. Bernstein, Portland, Oregon, for the appellant.

Erin C. Lagesen, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, for the appellee. 7630 ROY v. LAMPERT

OPINION

D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Albert Roy and Phillip Kephart were both convicted of crimes in Oregon state court. The federal district court dis-…