Legal Opinion
Michael Su Chia v. Steven Cambra, Jr., Warden Attorney General of the State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 4, 2004No. 99-56361PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
In 1988, two agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) were brutally murdered while executing an undercover sting operation in Monterey Park, California. Michael Su Chia (“Chia”) was convicted in California Superior Court of being an accomplice to the murders and participating in a conspiracy to ambush, rob, and kill the agents. Chia, however, claimed repeatedly that, far from being a co-conspirator, he tried to talk one of the shooters, his good friend William Wei Wang (“Wang”), out of the plot. Wang confirmed to local and federal authorities…
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