Renderos

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

VICTOR MANUEL RENDEROS, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 05-16454 v.  D.C. No.

CV-04-05250-CRB

STUART RYAN, Warden, California State Prison, Calipatria, OPINION Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Charles R. Breyer, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 5, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed November 8, 2006

Before: Eugene E. Siler, Jr.,* Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Siler

*The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.

18363 18366 RENDEROS v. RYAN

COUNSEL

Anne C. Beles, Robert J. Beles, and Paul McCarthy, Oakland, California, for the appellant.

Gregg E. Zwycke, Bill Lockyer, Robert R. Anderson, Gerald Engler, and Peggy S. Ruffra, San Francisco, California, for the appellee. RENDEROS v. RYAN 18367

OPINION

SILER, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Victor Renderos appeals the denial of his petition for a…