United States Ninth Circuit

Reversing the district court's denial of habeas corpus to a petitioner challenging his conviction for crimes involving the robbery and murder of a man in a Las Vegas jewelry store that resulted in the death penalty because a combination of prosecutorial misconduct and woefully inadequate assistance of counsel produced an extreme malfunction in the state criminal justice system.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/09/20

Judges

• GOULD

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel