United States Ninth Circuit

In a habeas proceeding following convictions for murder and robbery, denial of petition for relief is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the state court's holding that defendant received adequate Miranda warnings was not an unreasonable application of clearly-established federal law; but 2) police coercion of defendant's confession over a twelve-hour period of interrogation rendered it involuntary.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/23/2009
• Decided 11/20/2008
• Published 11/20/2008

Judges

• Before ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, MARY M. SCHROEDER, BETTY B. FLETCHER, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, PAMELA ANN RYMER, ANDREWJ. KLEINFELD, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Victoria B. Eiger (argued) and Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Dershowitz, Eiger & Adelson, P.C., New York, NY, for petitioner-appellant Johnathan Doody.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terry Goddard, Attorney General, Kent Cattani, Chief Counsel, and Joseph T. Maziarz (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appeals/Capital Litigation Section, Phoenix, AZ, for respondents-appellees Dora B. Schriro, and Megan Savage.