The following excerpt is from Dows v. Wood, 211 F.3d 480 (9th Cir. 2000):
A district court's decision to grant or deny a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. S 2254 is reviewed de novo. McNab v. Kok, 170 F.3d 1246, 1247 (9th Cir. 1999).
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