United States Ninth Circuit

Grant of a habeas petition is affirmed where the state court applied a standard for assessing defendant's competency to represent herself that had previously been rejected by the Supreme Court, thus the state court's adjudication of the claim resulted in a decision that was contrary to clearly established law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/15/2003
• Decided 10/17/2003
• Published 10/17/2003

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT and GRABER, Circuit Judges, and RHOADES, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick J. Whalen, Deputy Attorney General, State of California, Sacramento, CA, for the respondent-appellant., Matthew Alger, Fresno, CA, for the petitioner-appellee.