During a colloquy on a plea agreement to a 24-year sentence, petitioner said that he did not understand all of the rights and consequences of the plea read to him by an interpreter. The trial court responded, "Good," tore up petitioner's plea waiver form, instructed the prosecutor to call her first witness, and declared that "All deals are off the table." Petitioner was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 130 years to life in state prison. Is petitioner's claim that the court's abrupt and arbitrary rejection of his plea agreement deprived him of due process cognizable in habeas, or does it "fail to present a constitutional issue cognizable for habeas review," as the Ninth Circuit held in denying relief?

Whether petitioner's claim that the court's abrupt and arbitrary rejection of his plea agreement deprived him of due process is cognizable in habeas