Legal Opinion
Brown v. Ornoski
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 19, 2007No. 05-99008PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Albert Greenwood Brown, Jr. (“Brown”) was convicted in California and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl. The district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, but granted a certificate of appealability (“COA”) on two claims that Brown received ineffective assistance of counsel in the sentencing phase of his trial. We expanded the COA to include two additional claims, one also involving penalty phase ineffective assistance of counsel, and another involving Brown’s claim that lethal injection…
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