Wilson

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GREGORY PAUL WILSON, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 07-35478 v.  D.C. No.

CV-06-00951-ALA

BRIAN BELLEQUE, Oregon State Penitentiary, OPINION Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Ann L. Aiken, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 28, 2008—Seattle, Washington

Filed February 5, 2009

Before: Thomas G. Nelson, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bybee

1291 1294 WILSON v. BELLEQUE

COUNSEL

Richard L. Wolf (argued), Portland, Oregon, C. Renee Manes, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Portland, Oregon, for the petitioner-appellant. WILSON v. BELLEQUE 1295 Hardy Myers, Attorney General of the State of Oregon, Mary Williams, Solicitor General, Timothy A. Sylwester, Assistant Attorney General, David B. Thompson (argued), Salem, Ore- gon, for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

BYBEE, Circuit Judge:

Gregory Paul Wilson appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent the…