Tilcock

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LARRY GENE TILCOCK,  No. 07-16184 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-00037-ECR

MICHAEL BUDGE,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Edward C. Reed, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 9, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed August 15, 2008

Before: J. Clifford Wallace and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges, and David A. Ezra,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Graber

*The Honorable David A. Ezra, United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

David Anthony and Anne R. Traum, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the petitioner-appellant. 10722 TILCOCK v. BUDGE Conrad Hafen, Deputy Attorney General, and Thom Gover, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

A Nevada jury convicted Petitioner Larry Gene Tilcock of burglary, felony failure to stop on signal of police, and…