United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a petition for habeas relief from a conviction pursuant to a guilty plea to first degree murder is affirmed over a claim of error regarding the voluntariness of the plea, given the length of time, only 2 hours, that petitioner had to consider the proposed plea agreement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2007
• Decided 08/29/2007
• Published 08/29/2007

Judges

• CUDAHY, Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, RICHARD D. CUDAHY, and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald L. Lipmanson, Ukiah, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dorian Jung, Office of the Attorney General, State of California, San Francisco, CA, for the respondents-appellees.