Harrison

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DAVE HARRISON,  No. 06-55470 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-01465-DMS

DERRICK L. OLLISON, Warden,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Dana M. Sabraw, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 27, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed March 20, 2008

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Thomas G. Nelson, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

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COUNSEL

Kurt David Hermansen, Law Office of Kurt David Herman- sen, San Diego, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney; Bruce R. Castetter, Lawrence E. Spong, Assistant United States Attorneys, San Diego, California, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

A federal prisoner challenging the legality of a sentence must generally do so by a motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. However, when a motion under § 2255 is “inadequate or ineffective to test the legality” of a prisoner’s detention, see…