United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for relief is granted and petitioner is allowed to use a pseudonym where: 1) this is an extraordinary case in which petitioner was granted penalty-phase habeas relief based on sealed, graphic evidence regarding repeated sexual assault in prison; and 2) the use of pseudonym was proper on the basis of submitted credible evidence that petitioner would likely be subjected to more violence if his name was revealed along side the evidence of this abuse.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2015
• Published 05/27/2015

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• United States Ninth Circuit

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