United States Ninth Circuit

A decision refusing to allow petitioner to testify at a Three Strikes sentencing hearing violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, was an unreasonable application of established federal law, and was not harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2003
• Published 08/28/2003

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.