Richter

Volume 1 of

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOSHUA RICHTER, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 06-15614 v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-00643-JKS

R. Q. HICKMAN, Warden; CAL A.

TERHUNE; ERNIE ROE, OPINION

Respondents-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California James K. Singleton, Senior District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 17, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed August 10, 2009

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Stephen Reinhardt, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Barry G. Silverman, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Raymond C. Fisher, Richard A. Paez, Jay S. Bybee, Milan D. Smith, Jr. and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt; Dissent by Judge Bybee

10663 RICHTER v. HICKMAN 10667

COUNSEL

Cliff Gardner, Oakland, California, for petitioner-appellant Joshua Richter.

Harry Joseph Colombo, Deputy Attorney General, John G. McLean, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Mark Anthony Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for the respondents-appellees. 10668 …