Legal Opinion
Ricky Earp v. Ron Davis
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 6, 2018No. 15-56989PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TALLMAN, Circuit Judge
California state prisoner Ricky Earp appeals the district court’s order denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. In his petition, Earp claims that the California state court improperly denied his motion for a new trial based on the State’s prosecutorial misconduct. This case comes to us for the third time on appeal.
In 1992, Earp was sentenced to death after a Los Angeles County jury convicted him for the 1988 first-degree murder and rape of an 18-month-old girl. Earp filed a motion for a new trial, arguing that a newly discovered witness, Michael…
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