United States Ninth Circuit

Defense counsel's failure to investigate and present evidence that defendant suffered from brain damage, due to his exposure to neurotoxicants and child abuse, warranted habeas corpus relief and vacatur of defendant's death sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2002
• Published 02/19/2002

Judges

• FERGUSON, Circuit Judge., Before: PREGERSON, FERGUSON, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dane R. Gillette, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellant., Lynne S. Coffin, State Public Defender, Office of the State Public Defender, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellee.