Ricardo Sanders v. Vince Cullen

OPINION

CHRISTEN, Circuit Judge:

Ricardo Rene Sanders appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Sanders was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in 1982 stemming from his involvement in a robbery at a Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in December 1980. He is currently on death row in California.

The witnesses against Sanders at trial included four eyewitnesses and two informants. Sanders did not present an alibi; instead, he argued that the eyewitnesses incorrectly identified him as one of the gunmen and the police arrested the…