Jessie Zepeda v. James Walker

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JESSIE ZEPEDA,  No. 08-56085 Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. v.  2:07-cv-04881-DSF- JAMES WALKER, Warden, California MLG State Prison-Sacramento,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted September 1, 2009* Pasadena, California

Filed September 10, 2009

Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Tallman

*The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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COUNSEL

Lorilee M. Gates, Pasadena, California, for the petitioner- appellant.

Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General of the State of Cali- fornia, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Michael R. Johnsen, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the…