United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's petition for habeas corpus is affirmed where the state court's determination that he did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel, and that he was not prejudiced by his exclusion from an in-chambers meeting, was not contrary to federal law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/15/2004
• Decided 05/20/2005
• Published 05/20/2005

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, FERGUSON, REINHARDT, RYMER, KLEINFELD, SILVERMAN, GRABER, WARDLAW, GOULD, CLIFTON and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard M. Ullman (argued), Walter F. Brown, Jr., San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peggy S. Ruffra (argued), John R. Vance, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, State of California, for the respondent-appellee.