United States Ninth Circuit

In death penalty case, typographical error on jury instruction that stated defendant would get life with possibility of parole if the jury could not agree on death or life without parole was prejudicial when jury deadlocked on appropriate penalty.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2001
• Published 12/06/2001

Judges

• Before:  FERGUSON, GRABER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marianne D. Bachers, San Francisco, California;  and Tony Tamburello, Tamburello, Hanlon & Waggener, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ward A. Campbell, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for the respondent-appellee.