Legal Opinion
Edgar M. Hendricks v. Daniel Vasquez, Warden Attorney General of the State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 12, 1990No. 89-16022PublishedCited by 681 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Chief Judge:
Edgar M. Hendricks, a California state prisoner sentenced to death, appeals the district court’s summary dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We reverse and remand.
The facts leading to Hendricks’s conviction and sentence are set forth in People v. Hendricks, 44 Cal.3d 635, 640-41, 244 Cal.Rptr. 181, 183-84, 749 P.2d 836, 838-39 (Cal.), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 900, 109 S.Ct. 247, 102 L.Ed.2d 236 (1988).
On August 7, 1989, Hendricks filed a 69-page petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court. Two days later, the district court summarily dismissed…
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