United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a petition for habeas relief challenging a conviction and death sentence for first degree murder and armed burglary is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) admission of evidence; 2) prosecutorial misconduct; 3) judicial misconduct; 4) jury selection; 5) denial of funds to defendant for attendance of various out-of-state witnesses; 6) ineffective assistance of counsel; 7) denial of expert witness assistance for defense; 8) sufficiency of the evidence; and 9) errors during sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2005
• Decided 03/28/2006
• Published 03/28/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PAMELA ANN RYMER and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julie S. Hall, and Denise I. Young, Tucson, AZ, for petitioner-appellant Ronald Turney Williams.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terry Goddard, Attorney General, Kent E. Cattani, Chief Counsel, Capital Litigation Section, and John Pressley Todd, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for respondents-appellees Terry L. Stewart, et al.