Bible

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICHARD LYNN BIBLE, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 07-99017 v. CHARLES L. RYAN, Director of the  D.C. No.

CV-98-01859-PGR

Arizona Department of

OPINION

Corrections,* Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Paul G. Rosenblatt, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 26, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed July 1, 2009

Before: Ronald M. Gould, Richard R. Clifton, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

*Charles L. Ryan is substituted for his predecessor Dora B. Schriro as Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections. Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2).

8167 8170 BIBLE v. RYAN

COUNSEL

Daniel D. Maynard (argued), Maynard Cronin Erickson Cur- ran & Sparks, PLC, Phoenix, Arizona, for petitioner- appellant, Richard Lynn Bible.

Terry Goddard, Kent Cattani, Robert J. Gorman, J.D. Nielsen, Jeffrey A. Zick (argued), Office of the Attorney General for Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, for respondent-appellee, Charles L. Ryan.

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

On April 12, 1990,…