Legal Opinion
William Clark v. Jill Brown, Warden, California State Prison at San Quentin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 17, 2006No. 02-99007PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.
William Clark, a California death row inmate, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition asserting several constitutional errors related to his sentence. We hold that there were two interrelated due process violations in this case. First, we hold that the state trial court’s failure to give a felony-murder special circumstance jury instruction based on the California Supreme Court’s decision in People v. Green, 27 Cal.3d 1, 164 Cal.Rptr. 1, 609 P.2d 468 (1980), violated Clark’s due process right to present a complete…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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