Donna Lee v. Debra Jacquez

OPINION

NGUYEN, Circuit Judge:

Donna Kay Lee is serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole in a California state prison for first degree murder. After the California Court of Appeal affirmed her conviction on direct appeal, Lee filed various habeas petitions in state courts. All of her claims were denied, some on the merits and others as proeedurally barred. This appeal concerns eleven claims that the California Supreme Court found to be proeedurally barred under the Dixon rule, which prohibits California state courts from considering habeas claims that should have been'…