United States Ninth Circuit

In a prosecution for sexual conduct with a person under the age of fifteen, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where there is no federal constitutional right to the assistance of counsel in connection with state collateral relief proceedings, even where those proceedings constituted the first tier of review for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/27/2010
• Published 09/27/2010

Judges

• J. Clifford Wallace

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Bartels, John P. Todd