Legal Opinion
Gregory Dickens v. Charles L. Ryan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 3, 2012No. 08-99017PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge N.R. SMITH; Dissent by Judge REINHARDT.
OPINION
N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Gregory Scott Dickens, an Arizona state prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. Dickens was sentenced to death on each of two counts of felony murder for the 1991 killings of Bryan and Laura Bernstein. In this petition, Dickens challenges his capital sentences, arguing that (1) the Arizona Supreme Court’s application of Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782, 102 S.Ct. 3368, 73 L.Ed.2d 1140 (1982), and Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137, 107 S.Ct. 1676, 95…
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