Legal Opinion
Kevin Cooper v. Arthur Calderon, Warden of California State Prison at San Quentin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 21, 2001No. 98-99023PublishedCited by 326 opinions
1Per curiam
In 1985, Kevin Cooper was convicted of murder in the deaths of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their ten-year-old daughter Jessica, and an eleven-year-old friend of the Ryen family, Christopher Hughes, and of the attempted murder of the Ryens’ eight-year-old son Joshua, who survived the attack. The facts of the case are described in the opinion in our case No. 97-99030.
Cooper filed his first federal habeas petition in 1994. One individual, Calvin Booker, had purportedly confessed to the Ryen-Hughes murders and claimed that Kevin Cooper was innocent. In his first petition, Cooper claimed that trial…
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