United States Ninth Circuit

In a capital habeas matter, the denial of Petitioner's petition is affirmed, where Petitioner was not prejudiced by any of his counsel's alleged errors during the sentencing phase of his trial, because there was no reasonable probability that the sentencer would have reached a different result in the absence of the alleged errors.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/26/2009
• Decided 07/01/2009
• Published 07/01/2009

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge:, Before:  RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel D. Maynard (argued), Maynard Cronin Erickson Curran & Sparks, PLC, Phoenix, AZ, for petitioner-appellant, Richard Lynn Bible.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terry Goddard, Kent Cattani, Robert J. Gorman, J.D. Nielsen, Jeffrey A. Zick (argued), Office of the Attorney General for Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, for respondent-appellee, Charles L. Ryan.