United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's habeas petition was denied, because a federal court reviewing a state court ruling of harmless error must review only for objective unreasonableness, not under standards of the federal Brecht harmless error test.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/06/2003
• Decided 06/23/2004
• Published 06/23/2004

Judges

• Before:  NOONAN, TALLMAN, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles M. Sevilla, Cleary & Sevilla, LLP, San Diego, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven T. Oetting, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, CA, for the respondent-appellee.