United States Ninth Circuit

In a capital habeas matter, the denial of petitioner's petition is affirmed where: 1) Montana's accountability statutes, together with the deliberate homicide statute, made it "reasonably clear at the relevant time" that petitioner's conduct would subject him to the death penalty; and 2) prior decisions also gave petitioner reasonable warning that aiding and abetting a deliberate homicide would subject him to the death penalty.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2010
• Published 11/22/2010

Judges

• Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Donahoe, John Paulson