United States Ninth Circuit

18 U.S.C. section 3005 does not require that two attorneys be appointed whenever the government indicts a defendant for a crime punishable by death, if government formally and irrevocably renounces any intention to seek the death penalty.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/10/2003
• Decided 08/05/2003
• Published 08/05/2003

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge., Before BEEZER, THOMAS, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Francisco Leon, Tucson, Arizona, for the defendant-appellant., Paul K. Charlton, Robert K. Miskell, Christina M. Cabanillas, and Sean C. Chapman, United States Attorneys Office, District of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellee.