Legal Opinion
Stanley Williams v. Jeanne S. Woodford, Warden, California State Prison, San Quentin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 9, 2004No. 99-99018, 00-99001PublishedCited by 270 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUG, Circuit Judge:
Stanley Williams, a prisoner on California’s death row, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his 1981 conviction of multiple counts of first-degree murder and armed robbery and his sentence of death. Williams also appeals the district court’s denial of his motion, made under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), for relief from the court’s judgment denying his habeas corpus petition. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the district court’s denial of Williams’s habeas corpus petition, and we vacate the…
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