United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of habeas corpus relief from a conviction and sentence for second-degree murder and kidnapping is affirmed where admission of improper polygraph evidence played a very small role in the trial, and thus, was not harmful.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2005
• Decided 01/12/2006
• Published 01/12/2006

Judges

• Before D.W. NELSON, RAWLINSON, and BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carrie Leonetti, Federal Public Defender's Office, Fresno, CA, for defendant-appellant Mark Mancebo., Brian Alvarez, Office of the California Attorney General, Fresno, CA, for the respondents-appellees.