Hayward

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RONALD HAYWARD,  No. 06-55392 Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. v.  CV-05-07239- JOHN MARSHALL, Warden, GAF(CT) California Men’s Colony East,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary A. Feess, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 8, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed January 3, 2008

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Daniel M. Friedman,* and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Daniel M. Friedman, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Joseph V. Camarata, Vallejo, California, for petitioner- appellant Ronald Hayward.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jennifer A. Neill, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Jane Catherine Malich, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for respondent-appellee John…