United States Ninth Circuit

In a murder prosecution, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where the trial court's exclusion of the evidence of a witness's admission that his partners had committed the murder, and of another witness's drug-dealing, stripped petitioner of evidence that someone other than she had probably committed the murder of her husband.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/15/2010
• Decided 05/25/2010
• Published 05/25/2010

Judges

• Before JOHN T. NOONAN, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Juliana Drous, San Francisco, CA, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barton Bowers, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for respondents-appellees.