United States Ninth Circuit

A grant of a writ of habeas corpus in connection with rape and sodomy convictions is reversed where a state court's application of the Supreme Court's ineffective-assistance standards was, at the very least, not objectively unreasonable, and thus, petitioner failed to establish that he was entitled to habeas relief.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2005
• Decided 07/17/2006
• Published 07/17/2006

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before: BROWNING, D.W. NELSON, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Janet A. Klapstein, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, OR, argued the cause for the respondent-appellant;  Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, were on the briefs., Anthony D. Bornstein, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR, argued the cause for the petitioner-appellee.