United States Ninth Circuit

Grant of habeas relief from petitioner's conviction for first degree murder case for killing his wife is affirmed where multiple errors in the admission and exclusion of evidence accumulated to deprive petitioner of a constitutionally fair trial, and the one-sided prejudice caused by those errors made a state court's contrary conclusion objectively unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/13/2007
• Decided 10/10/2007
• Published 10/10/2007

Judges

• HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before: HAWKINS, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Ortega, Deputy Attorney General for the State of California, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellant., Martin N. Buchanan, Niddrie, Fish, & Buchanan LLP, San Diego, CA, for the petitioner-appellee.