Legal Opinion
Donald Beardslee v. Jeanne S. Woodford, Warden, of the California State Prison at San Quentin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 28, 2004No. 01-99007PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
Donald Beardslee appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for habe-as corpus. Juries in San Mateo County, California, convicted Beardslee on two counts of first degree murder with special circumstances and sentenced him to death. The California Supreme Court affirmed his conviction and sentence, and Beardslee filed a habeas corpus petition in federal district court. The district court rejected each of his claims and dismissed the petition. We affirm.
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On April 24, 1981, Donald Beardslee returned home from work and discovered that his…
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