U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
May 2, 2018
9th continues to ignore US high court on habeas review
The 9th Circuit, having concluded the year 2017 with its usual record of U.S. Supreme Court reversals, opened the new year with an incomprehensible decision
Lawrence Waddington
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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."
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, having concluded the year 2017 with its usual record of U.S. Supreme Court reversals, opened the new year with an incomprehensible decision in Poyson v. Ryan, 879 F.3d 875. In a case involving a brutal, vicious and heinous murder, an Arizona state court jury in 1998 had voted a guilty verdict and death penalty sentence of the defendant. The defendant appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court, whose judges ...
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