Jones

*966 ORDER

This court’s memorandum disposition filed on April 18, 2002, is withdrawn and replaced by the memorandum disposition filed concurrently with this order. The petition for rehearing and the petition for rehearing en banc are denied in a separate order.

MEMORANDUM **

Betty Jones (“Jones”) appeals the jury verdict for the defendant police officers on her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that the officers violated her Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they conducted an unreasonable search of her house. We have dealt with the issue of jury instructions in a separate published opinion. This memorandum disposition addresses Jones’s issue of alleged attorney misconduct of defense counsel Paul Paquette (“Paquette”). It also addresses Jones’s claim of a preserved issue based on Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 , 98 S.Ct. 2018 , 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978).

“We review only issues which are argued specifically and distinctly in a party’s opening brief.” Greenwood v. Fed. Aviation Admin., 28 F.3d 971, 977 (9th Cir.1994) (citing Miller v. Fairchild Indus., Inc., 797 F.2d 727 , 738 (9th Cir.1986)). The extent of Jones’s reference to her Monell claim was one sentence…