United States Ninth Circuit

In a murder prosecution, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where: 1) the Miranda advisement provided to petitioner, which consumed twelve pages of transcript and completely obfuscated the core precepts of Miranda, was inadequate; and 2) nearly thirteen hours of relentless overnight questioning of a sleep-deprived teenager by a tag team of officers overbore the will of petitioner, rendering his confession involuntary.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/23/2009
• Decided 02/25/2010
• Published 02/25/2010

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.