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DELGADO v. LEWIS

No. 97-56162.

168 F.3d 1148 (1999)

Jesus Garcia DELGADO, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Gail LEWIS, Deputy Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sabrina Y. Lane, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, California, for respondents-appellants.

Michael B. Dashjian, Solvang, California, for petitioner-appellee.

Before: PREGERSON, DOROTHY W. NELSON, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge:

Jesus Garcia Delgado claims his appellate counsel ineffectively assisted him by failing to raise any arguable issues in his appellate brief. The district court agreed and granted his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

I

Delgado is a forty-five-year old man of Hispanic descent who speaks and understands very little English. In 1994, he was arrested along with five codefendants and

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