United States Ninth Circuit

Reversed. The panel reversed the district court’s judgment denying habeas relief on a certified claim of ineffective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase, in a case in which Defendant was convicted and sentenced to death by a California jury on two counts of first-degree murder for killings he committed during a carjacking.

Appellate Information

• Published 2019/08/08

Judges

• Thomas

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel