Delgadillo

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

HERCULANO DELGADILLO,  No. 07-55089 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-01501-DMS

JEANNE S. WOODFORD,

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 December 3, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed June 3, 2008

Before: David R. Thompson, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

6271 6276 DELGADILLO v. WOODFORD

COUNSEL

Vivian A. Fu, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner- appellant. DELGADILLO v. WOODFORD 6277 Meagan J. Beale, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, San Diego, Cali- fornia, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to consider whether for purposes of our review under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Pen- alty Act (AEDPA), 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a state habeas court’s decision to apply Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), retroactively…