Criminal,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jan. 14, 2016
9th Circuit too quick to find jury selection errors
Twenty years ago, Congress enacted the Anti-Terrorism and Death Penalty Act, limiting federal appellate courts, under strict conditions, from granting habeas corpus petitions overruling state court judgments.
Lawrence Waddington
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JAMS
Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
Twenty years ago, Congress enacted the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, limiting federal appellate courts, under strict conditions, from granting habeas corpus petitions overruling state court judgments. Although the act applied to all federal appellate courts, the reversal record of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals provided the rationale for the statute.
Innumerable 9th Circuit cases were reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court during the two decades that followed ena...
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