United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court denying petitioners' application for habeas relief without an evidentiary hearing prior to vacating a magistrate judge’s credibility findings, judgment is reversed because the rule of US v. Ridgway extends to determinations by a magistrate judge as to the credibility of a prosecutor’s testimony at the second and third steps of a Batson inquiry.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2011
• Published 12/08/2011

Judges

• REINHARDT

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel