Ronald Taylor v. Matthew Cate, Secretary Cdcr

OPINION

CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:

In 1987, two men entered Lewis Lim’s fast food restaurant, and one of them shot Lim dead. A jury found that Ronald Taylor was the shooter. Taylor was convicted and sentenced to life without parole for felony murder predicated on attempted robbery. After the trial, Taylor told the State that his cousin was the shooter but admitted that he was the second person— that he had traveled to and from the restaurant with his cousin and had been present at the killing. The State came to be persuaded that Taylor was not the shooter. Though its subsequent attempt to…