Stoltie

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BRIAN JOSEPH STOLTIE, 

Petitioner-Appellee, No. 07-56079 v.  D.C. No.

CV-06-00289-DDP

JAMES E. TILTON, Secretary of the Department of Corrections, OPINION Respondent-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 6, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed August 19, 2008

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judge, Roger J. Miner,* Senior Circuit Judge and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judge.

Per Curiam Opinion

*The Honorable Roger J. Miner, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Jonathan Libby, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Ange- les, California, for the petitioner-appellee.

Heather F. Crawford, Deputy Attorney General for the State of California, San Diego, California, for the respondent- appellant.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

We AFFIRM the district court’s decision, and adopt its opinion in Stoltie v. California, reported at…