United States Ninth Circuit

District court's denial of defendant's request for habeas relief from his murder conviction is reversed and remanded where the United States Supreme Court's decision in Chambers v. Mississippi clearly established that the exclusion of trustworthy and necessary exculpatory testimony at trial violates a defendant's due process right to present a defense, and this clearly established federal law applied at the time the California Supreme Court decided defendant's case in 1993.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/28/2012
• Published 09/28/2012

Judges

• Smith

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel