Legal Opinion
Vargas v. Lambert
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1998No. 98-99028PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Katie Vargas (“Vargas”) appeals the district court’s denial of her application for a stay of execution filed on behalf of her son, Jeremy Sagastegui (“Sagastegui”), a Washington state prisoner, who is scheduled to be executed on October 13, 1998. The district court held that Vargas lacked standing as Sagastegui’s “next friend” and that the district court therefore lacked jurisdiction to entertain her application. The court dismissed her ease, but issued a certificate of appealability to this court.1
We conclude that Vargas has produced sufficient new evidence…
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3Cited by76 opinions
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