United States Ninth Circuit

In a murder prosecution, the dismissal of Petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where: 1) Fed. R. Crim. P. 60(b)(6) motions may be predicated on intervening changes in the law; and 2) under Rule 24 of the California Rules of Court, a denial of a habeas petition is not final for 30 days after filing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/13/2009
• Decided 06/25/2009
• Published 06/25/2009

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MYRON H. BRIGHT,STEPHEN REINHARDT and A. WALLACE TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Albert Joel Kutchins, Berkeley, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Juliet B. Haley, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellee.