United States Ninth Circuit

Conviction of first-degree murder and death sentenced are affirmed over multiple constitutional challenges, including impermissible joinder, sufficiency of the evidence on premeditation, and ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2002
• Decided 06/24/2003
• Published 06/24/2003

Judges

• Before B. FLETCHER, KLEINFELD, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tracy J. Dressner, La Crescenta, CA, and Terry J. Amdur, Pasadena, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Carol F. Jorstad, Deputy Attorney General, Louis W. Karlin, Deputy Attorney General, and Shawn McGahey Webb, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondent-appellee.