United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's refusal to allow defendant to testify at a Three Strikes sentencing hearing, to explain or refute his own statements as paraphrased in a probation report, denied him due process of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2003
• Published 03/06/2003

Judges

• Before THOMPSON and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges and WILLIAM W SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph H. Goldsen, Goleta, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Teresa Torreblanca, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, CA, for the respondents-appellees.