
    Jim Otis SYLVESTER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Shiela GARCIA, Acting Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 02-15249.
    D.C. No. CV-00-06190-OWW.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Nov. 10, 2003.
    
    Decided Nov. 14, 2003.
    Jim Otis Sylvester, Blythe, CA, Ann C. McClintock, AFPD, Sacramento, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    Robert R. Anderson, Depty. Atty., Carlos A. Martinez, DAG, Sacramento, CA, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before KOZINSKI, SILVERMAN and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Jim Otis Sylvester appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition as untimely. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We remand.

Sylvester contends, and the government concedes, that the district court erred by dismissing his federal habeas petition as untimely because he is entitled to statutory tolling for the entire time that his state habeas petitions to the California Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court were pending, including the 22-month interval between those petitions. We remand to the district court to reconsider timeliness in light of Saffold v. Carey, 312 F.3d 1031, 1035 (9th Cir.2002), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 123 S.Ct. 2578, 156 L.Ed.2d 604 (2003).

REMANDED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
     