United States Ninth Circuit

Petitioner's due process rights were not denied by a judicial expansion of California's definition of death-qualifying special circumstances in violation of Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 347 (1964).

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/07/2003
• Decided 05/25/2004
• Published 05/25/2004

Judges

• Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and THOMAS and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick J. Whalen, Stan Cross, Jo Graves, and Robert Anderson, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James S. Thomson and Saor E. Stetler, Thomson & Stetler, Berkeley, California;  and Joseph Sclesinger, Assistant Federal Defender, and Quinn Denvir, Federal Defendant, Sacramento, CA, for the appellee.