Sechrest

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICKY DAVID SECHREST,  No. 04-99004 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-N-92-0536-ECR

JOHN IGNACIO, Warden,

OPINION

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

Argued and Submitted February 15, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed December 5, 2008

Before: Harry Pregerson, William A. Fletcher, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Pregerson

15975 SECHREST v. IGNACIO 13979

COUNSEL

Franny A. Forsman, Tiffany R. Murphy, and Michael Pes- cetta, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the petitioner-appellant.

George J. Chanos and David K. Neidert, Office of the Nevada Attorney General, Reno, Nevada, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

In this pre-AEDPA capital case, Ricky David Sechrest appeals the denial of his third amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254.1 We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings. 1 AEDPA, the Antiterrorism…