United States Ninth Circuit

A state court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing sua sponte when presented with evidence of juror bias is not contrary to, nor an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/10/2005
• Decided 07/20/2005
• Published 07/20/2005

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge., Before: WALLACE, RAWLINSON, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter F. Brown, Jr., Ali Kazemi, Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for petitioner-appellant Michael Sims.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremy Friedlander, Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for respondent-appellee James Rowland, Director of the California Department of Corrections.