Case Name: Kenneth Wayne BRADFORD, Petitioner-Appellant, v. D.L. RUNNELS, Warden; California State Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-08-19
Citations: 73 F. App'x 929
Docket Number: No. 02-55735; D.C. No. CV-01-03233-AHS
Parties: Kenneth Wayne BRADFORD, Petitioner—Appellant, v. D.L. RUNNELS, Warden; California State Attorney General, Respondents—Appellees.
Judges: Before KOZINSKI, T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 73
Pages: 929–930

Head Matter:
Kenneth Wayne BRADFORD, Petitioner—Appellant, v. D.L. RUNNELS, Warden; California State Attorney General, Respondents—Appellees.
No. 02-55735.
D.C. No. CV-01-03233-AHS.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Aug. 6, 2003.
Decided Aug. 19, 2003.
Before KOZINSKI, T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.
The Honorable Jane A. Restani, United States Court of International Trade, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
The district court did not err in denying Bradford's habeas petition, which claimed his trial counsel was ineffective because he failed to argue that Bradford was illegally searched. See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). At the time of Bradford's suppression hearing, there was no clearly established federal law that parolee searches require reasonable suspicion, and People v. Reyes, 19 Cal.4th 743, 754, 80 Cal.Rptr.2d 734, 968 P.2d 445 (1998), held parolees had no reasonable expectation of privacy. Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 U.S. 868, 107 S.Ct. 3164, 97 L.Ed.2d 709 (1987), was not sufficiently clear as to the requirements for parolee searches so as to make United States v. Knights, 534 U.S. 112, 122 S.Ct. 587, 151 L.Ed.2d 497 (2001)-which was decided well after Bradford's suppression hearing-inevitable. Thus, trial counsel's tactical decision to shift arguments to fit within the framework of Reyes was "within the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases." Strickland, 466 U.S. at 687 (quoting McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. 759, 771 n. 14, 90 S.Ct. 1441, 25 L.Ed.2d 763 (1970)). For the same reasons, Bradford's appellate counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise a Sixth Amendment claim on appeal.
AFFIRMED.
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