Legal Opinion
Pedro Vega v. Charles Ryan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 19, 2014No. 12-15631PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
The Opinion filed November 13, 2013, and appearing at 735 F.3d 1093, is with drawn. It may not be cited as precedent by or to this court or any district court of the Ninth Circuit.
OPINION
2Per curiam
Petitioner Pedro Imperial Vega was convicted of sexually abusing his stepdaughter. In this appeal of the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Vega argues that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective when he failed to review Vega’s client file and, as a result, failed to call as a witness a Catholic priest to whom the victim had recanted her allegations of her…
3Cases cited32 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
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4Cited by30 opinions
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