Legal Opinion
Reynaldo Ayala v. Kevin Chappell
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 20, 2016No. 13-99005PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHRISTEN, Circuit Judge:
Reynaldo Medrano Ayala appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Ayala was convicted of triple homicide in 1988, and he is currently on death row in California. He argues that his trial was fundamentally unfair, and federal ha-beas relief is therefore warranted, primarily because his lawyer unreasonably failed to impeach the prosecution’s key witnesses with evidence that would have undermined them credibility. Ayala also claims that the State concealed evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland,…
2Cases cited64 opinions
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3Cited by48 opinions
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