Legal Opinion
James McKinney v. Charles Ryan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 16, 2013No. 09-99018PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge N.R. SMITH; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge WARDLAW.
OPINION
N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner James Erin McKinney, an Arizona state prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habe-as corpus petition. The Arizona state court sentenced McKinney to death on each of two counts of first-degree murder for the 1991 killings of Christene Mertens and Jim McClain. We affirm the district court.
In this opinion we address three claims raised in McKinney’s petition: (1) the trial court’s use of dual juries at trial; (2) the trial court’s use of…
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