United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court denying defendant's petition for habeas relief from his first-degree murder conviction, judgment is reversed where the court failed to conduct a Strickland inquiry because it rejected defendant's claim that the trial court's felony murder instruction was erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/01/2011
• Published 09/01/2011

Judges

• GERTNER

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• S. Jonathan Young, Terry Goddard