Richter

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOSHUA RICHTER, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 06-15614 v.  D.C. No. R. Q. HICKMAN, Warden; CAL A. CV-01-00643-JKS

TERHUNE; ERNIE ROE,

Respondents-Appellees. 

CHRISTIAN BRANSCOMBE, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 06-15776 v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-00643-JKS

R. Q. HICKMAN, Warden; CAL A.

TERHUNE; ERNIE ROE, OPINION

Respondents-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California James K. Singleton, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 15, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed April 9, 2008

Before: Robert R. Beezer, Stephen S. Trott, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Beezer COUNSEL

Cliff Gardner, Oakland, California, for petitioner-appellant Joshua Richter.

Ann C. McClintock, Assistant Federal Defender, Sacra- mento, California, for petitioner-appellant Christian Bran- scombe.

Harry Joseph Colombo, Deputy Attorney General, and John G. McLean, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Sacra- mento, California, for the…