United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff's death sentence is vacated where his counsel was ineffective since he failed to investigate mitigating childhood abuse.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2005
• Published 04/21/2005

Judges

• Before FARRIS, KOZINSKI and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert E. Darby, Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frederick R. Millar, Jr., William M. Wood, AGCA-Office of the California Attorney General, San Diego, CA, for Respondent-Appellee.