United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus from a conviction for special circumstance murder is affirmed over claims that: 1) petitioner was denied his constitutional right to remain silent; and 2) he was denied due process by the introduction of his involuntary confession into evidence, and by the exclusion of evidence of coercion in the interrogation process.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/09/2007
• Decided 11/08/2006
• Published 11/08/2006

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, STEPHEN REINHARDT, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, W. FLETCHER, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, CARLOS T. BEA, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles M. Bonneau (argued), Sacramento, California, for the petitioner-appellant., Peter C. Pfaffenroth (argued), Jeffrey T. Green, Harold L. Rogers, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC;  Charles D. Weisselberg, University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), Berkeley, California;  David M. Porter, Sacramento, California;  Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Seattle, Washington, for amicus curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rachelle A. Newcomb, Deputy Attorney General (argued) and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General;  Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General;  Stephen G. Herndon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General;  Brian R. Means, Deputy Attorney General;  Sacramento, California, for the respondent-appellee.