United States Ninth Circuit

Grant of a petition for writ of habeas corpus regarding sentencing is reversed where juror misconduct, assuming any occurred during the penalty phase, had no substantial or injurious effect on the sentence. Denial of a writ of habeas corpus for the underlying conviction is affirmed where defendant was not deprived of an impartial jury.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2006
• Decided 09/10/2007
• Published 09/10/2007

Judges

• Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and STEPHEN REINHARDT, ALEX KOZINSKI, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, PAMELA ANN RYMER, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RONALD M. GOULD, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David S. Olson, Kulik, Gottesman, Mouton & Siegel, Sherman Oaks, CA, for the petitioner-appellant/cross-appellee., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General;  Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General;  Kristofer Jorstad, Deputy Attorney General;  and Keith H. Borjon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondent-appellee/cross-appellant.