United States Ninth Circuit

Defense counsel did not render ineffective assistance to defendant at sentencing stage of death penalty case where defendant instructed counsel not to present mitigating evidence and confirmed his desire to the court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/24/2005
• Decided 11/28/2001
• Published 11/28/2001

Judges

• HAWKINS, Circuit Judge., Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, ALEX KOZINSKI, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dale A. Baich, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James P. Beene, Assistant Attorney General, Capital Litigation Section, Phoenix, AZ, for the respondent-appellee.