United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a petition for habeas corpus challenging a life sentence for murder following petitioner's extradition to the U.S. from Venezuela is reversed where a state court's failure to give effect to a Venezuelan extradition order was an objectively unreasonable application of clearly established Supreme Court precedent. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/13/2005
• Decided 02/08/2007
• Published 02/08/2007

Judges

• Before:  JEROME FARRIS, D.W. NELSON, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara Strickland, San Diego, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew Mulford, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, CA, for the appellee.