The following excerpt is from Sherriff v. Maass, 12 F.3d 1108 (9th Cir. 1993):
8 A district court's decision to grant or deny a petition for habeas corpus is reviewed de novo. See Adams v. Peterson, 968 F.2d 835, 843 (9th Cir.1992) (en banc), cert. denied, 113 S.Ct. 1818 (1993).
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