United States Ninth Circuit

District Court did not abuse its discretion by deciding that an evidentiary hearing was unnecessary. Petitioner has not established that an evidentiary hearing would produce evidence more reliable or more probative than the evidence already before the district court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/08/2003
• Decided 11/20/2003
• Published 11/20/2003

Judges

• WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge., Before WALLACE, TROTT, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christine Stebbins Dahl, Assistant Federal Defender, Portland, OR, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy A. Sylwester, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, OR, for the respondent-appellee.