Paulino

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DELBERT PAULINO,  No. 07-55429 Petitioner-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-00-03327-GPS

C. MICHAEL HARRISON, Warden,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California George P. Schiavelli, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 9, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed September 4, 2008

Before: Richard A. Paez and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Suzanne B. Conlon,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Paez

*The Honorable Suzanne B. Conlon, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Margaret E. Maxwell, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the respondent-appellant.

Katherine Froyen, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner-appellee.

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

Delbert Paulino (“Paulino”), an African-American male, was tried and convicted of second degree robbery, kidnaping for robbery, and…