United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a conviction for felony sex offenses is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) an Ex Post Facto claim regarding application of Cal. Pen. Code section 803(g), which extended the statute of limitations for sex offenses with minors; 2) a holding that the conditions for invoking section 803(g) could be proven by a standard lower than "reasonable doubt"; 3) a violation of due process in the admission of evidence of defendant's other bad acts; 4) prosecutorial misconduct; 5) ineffective assistance of counsel; and 6) cumulative error.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2006
• Decided 11/08/2006
• Published 11/08/2006

Judges

• SILER, Circuit Judge:, Before: SILER, JR.,RAWLINSON, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anne C. Beles, Robert J. Beles, and Paul McCarthy, Oakland, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregg E. Zwycke, Bill Lockyer, Robert R. Anderson, Gerald Engler, and Peggy S. Ruffra, San Francisco, CA, for the appellee.