Brown

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ERICK RAYMUNDO GONZALEZ, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 07-56107 v. EDMUND G. BROWN, Attorney  D.C. No.

CV-03-04067-DSF

General; STATE OF CALIFORNIA;

OPINION

JOHN MARSHALL, Warden, Respondents-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dale S. Fischer, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 31, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed October 30, 2009

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges, and Owen M. Panner, District Judge.*

Opinion by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Owen M. Panner, Senior District Judge for the District of Oregon, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Shawn R. Perez, Law Offices of Shawn R. Perez, Las Vegas, Nevada, for appellant Erick Raymundo Gonzalez.

David F. Glassman, Office of the Attorney General of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, California, for appellees Edmund G. Brown, John Marshall and State of California. GONZALEZ v. BROWN 14647

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

We consider the significance of a…