Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit January 16, 2004, No. 03-55139; D.C. No. CV-98-01120-LKK (Leyva v. Ayers)

lead-opinion

MEMORANDUM *

Hector Sanchez Leyva appeals the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He was convicted in 1996 of twenty-two counts of lewd acts with a child under the age of fourteen in violation of California Penal Code § 288, which he challenges on the ground that one of two prior convictions for sex crimes used to enhance his sentence was