Reynoso

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AARON REYNOSO,  No. 05-55695 Petitioner-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-03854-VAP

GEORGE J. GIURBINO, Warden,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Virginia A. Phillips, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 9, 2006—Pasadena, California

Filed September 6, 2006

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Stephen S. Trott, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt; Dissent by Judge Trott

10679 REYNOSO v. GIURBINO 10683

COUNSEL

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General for the State of California; Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General (on the briefs); Xiomara Costello, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California (argued), for the respondent-appellant.

Maria E. Stratton, Federal Public Defender (on the briefs); Mark R. Drozdowski, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California (argued), for the…