United States Ninth Circuit

In a prosecution for evading a peace officer and assault with a deadly weapon, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where an instruction by the trial court, in context, created a pool of prospective jurors who were seeking to strip themselves of part of what made them human by ignoring their individual life experiences.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/09/2010
• Decided 05/25/2010
• Published 05/25/2010

Judges

• Before JOHN T. NOONAN, MARSHA S. BERZON and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Deanna F. Lamb, Central California Appellate Program, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Andrew Eldridge, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the respondent-appellee.