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MILES v. STAINER

No. 96-15521.

108 F.3d 1109 (1997)

Jimmie Lee MILES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Jerry STAINER, Warden, Corcoran State Prison; James Gomez, Director, California Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann C. McClintock, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Sacramento, California, for petitioner-appellant.

Robert P. Whitlock, Deputy Attorney General, Fresno, California, for respondent-appellee.

Before: NORRIS and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges, and MOLLOY, District Judge.

OPINION

MOLLOY, District Judge:

Jimmy Lee Miles ("Miles") appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his habeas petition, he attacked his pleas of guilty to state kidnapping and robbery charges as invalid because he was mentally incompetent at the time he pled. We reverse and remand the case to state court for further proceedings.

I.

On July 6, 1984, Miles hid in the back seat of the car of Donald...

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