United States Ninth Circuit

For purposes of the circuit court's review under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), a state habeas court's decision to apply Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), retroactively to uphold a defendant's sentence is not an unreasonable application of Supreme Court precedent.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/03/2007
• Decided 06/03/2008
• Published 06/05/2008

Judges

• IKUTA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  DAVID R. THOMPSON, KIM MCLANE WARDLAW, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vivian A. Fu, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Meagan J. Beale, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, San Diego, CA, for the respondent-appellee.