Robbins

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ARTHUR ROBBINS, III,  No. 05-17131 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-04-06337-OWW

TOM L. CAREY,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Oliver W. Wanger, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 17, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed March 12, 2007

Before: J. Clifford Wallace and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges, and David A. Ezra,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Thomas

*The Honorable David A. Ezra, United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

David M. Porter (argued) and Daniel J. Broderick, Office of the Federal Defender, Sacramento, California, for the petitioner-appellant. 2940 ROBBINS v. CAREY Jeanne R. Wolfe (argued) and Bill Lockyer, Robert R. Ander- son, Mary Jo Graves, Stephen G. Herndon, and Mark A. Johnson, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Cali- fornia, Sacramento, California, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

THOMAS, Circuit Judge:

In…