United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of habeas relief from convictions and sentences for second-degree murder and other offenses, committed when defendant was fourteen years old, is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not unreasonably apply federal law in rejecting an Apprendi claim relating to his sentencing as an adult; and 2) the district court correctly rejected claims challenging his guilty plea, his counsel's performance, and the sufficiency of the evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2008
• Published 02/06/2008

Judges

• HENRY, Chief Judge., Before HENRY, Chief Judge, ANDERSON and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Margaret A. Katze, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. Victoria Wilson, Assistant Attorney General, State of New Mexico (Patricia A. Madrid, Attorney General of New Mexico, with her on the brief), Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Respondent-Appellee.