United States Ninth Circuit

Because the district court erred in finding the admission of testimony in violation of defendant's Miranda rights in the special circumstances trial to be harmless error, appellant's death sentence vacated. (Amended opinion).

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/08/2002
• Published 03/11/2002

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge., Before: REINHARDT, HAWKINS, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Douglas R. Young,Claudia A. Lewis, Jennifer Schwartz, Grace K. Won and Kelly A. Woodruff, Farella Braun & Martel, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joan Killeen, Deputy Attorney General, and Peggy S. Ruffra, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellee.