Anderson

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JEROME ALVIN ANDERSON,  No. 04-17237 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-00-02494-WBS

C.A. TERHUNE, Director,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California William B. Shubb, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 9, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed February 15, 2008

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Stephen Reinhardt, Sidney R. Thomas, Barry G. Silverman, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, Richard C. Tallman, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Richard R. Clifton, Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge McKeown; Concurrence by Judge Silverman; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Bea; Dissent by Judge Tallman Charles M. Bonneau (argued), Sacramento, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Rachelle A. Newcomb, Deputy Attorney General (argued) and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General; Dane R. Gil- lette, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Michael P. Farrell, Senior…