Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit October 8, 2004, No. 03-16470 (Williams v. Helling)

MEMORANDUM***

We affirm the district court’s denial of Williams’s petition for habeas corpus.

The state court’s ruling regarding the admonition to Dysart was not contrary to, nor an unreasonable application of, clearly established Supreme Court law.1 In Webb v. Texas2 the Supreme Court case at issue, the admonition “effectively drove the defendant’s only witness off the stand.