Kesser

Volume 1 of

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICHARD CRAIG KESSER,  No. 02-15475 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-96-03452-PJH

STEVEN J. CAMBRA, JR., Warden,

OPINION*

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California* Phyllis J. Hamilton, Magistrate, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 13, 2005—Portland, Oregon

Filed September 11, 2006

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Alex Kozinski, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Pamela Ann Rymer, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Richard A. Paez, Marsha S. Berzon, Jay S. Bybee, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bybee; Concurrence by Judge Warlaw; Concurrence by Judge Berzon; Dissent by Judge Rymer

*Decided and filed together with the companion case of Leahy v. Far- mon, No. 01-17467, ___ WL ___ (9th Cir. 2006) (unpublished disposi- tion).

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COUNSEL

William Weiner, Law Offices of William Weiner, San Fran- cisco, California, for petitioner-appellant Richard Kesser.

Russel Covey,…