United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a habeas corpus petition from a conviction for assault on a child resulting in death is reversed pursuant to a claim of constitutionally insufficient evidence where no rational trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant caused the child's death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/09/2006
• Published 02/09/2006

Judges

• Before:  HARRY PREGERSON and WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., Circuit Judges, and EDWARD C. REED, JR., District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Brennan, Esq., Manhattan Beach, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kristofer Jorstad, Esq., Richard T. Breen, Esq., Office of the California Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent-Appellee.