Baldwin

Volume 1 of

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ROGER PAUL SMITH,  No. 04-35253 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-98-00059-OMP

GEORGE H. BALDWIN,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Owen M. Panner, Senior Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 18, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed December 26, 2007

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, and Mary M. Schroeder, Stephen Reinhardt, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Sidney R. Thomas, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, Richard A. Paez, Richard C. Tallman, Richard R. Clifton, Jay S. Bybee, Milan D. Smith, Jr. and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judge, delivered the opinion of the court, in which Kozinski, Chief Judge, and Kleinfeld, McKeown, Wardlaw, Tallman, Clifton, Bybee and Ikuta, Circuit Judges, join.

Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judge, filed a concurring opinion, in which Schroeder, W. Fletcher, and Paez, Circuit Judges, join. 16637 16638 SMITH v. BALDWIN Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judge,…