Deutscher

ORDER

The opinion filed on April 20, 1993— Deutscher v. Whitley, 991 F.2d 605 (9th Cir.1993) — is withdrawn.

OPINION

I. Introduction

In Deutscher v. Whitley, 991 F.2d 605 (9th Cir.1993) (Deutscher III), applying the stricter standards the Supreme Court has imposed on claims that a defendant fails to raise in an initial habeas corpus petition, we denied what we assumed to be Henry Deutscher’s second petition. We never determined whether Deutscher had in fact previously filed a habe-as petition. In his motion for rehearing, Deutscher renews his claim that because he never authorized the habeas petition filed by his original attorney, Herbert Ahlswede, his present habeas petition should be considered his first one.

*983 In response to Deutscher’s motion, we remanded the case to the district court for the limited purpose of determining whether Deutscher authorized the filing of his first federal habeas petition. See, e.g., Williams v. Lockhart, 862 F.2d 155, 160 (8th Cir.1988), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 112 S.Ct. 213 , 116 L.Ed.2d 171 (1991). The district court determined that Deutscher had not authorized the first petition. We affirm the district court’s findings and grant…