Legal Opinion
Deutscher v. Whitley
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 31, 1989No. Nos. 88-2552, 88-2579PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FARRIS, Circuit Judge:
Henry Deutscher appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Deutscher sought habe-as corpus relief from a Nevada court’s sentence of death. Nevada authorities appeal the district court’s refusal to hold a hearing on whether Deutseher’s petition was an abuse of the writ of habeas corpus. We reverse the district court’s dismissal of Deutscher’s petition and remand with instructions to grant the writ unless Deutscher is resentenced within a reasonable time.
FACTS
In 1977, a Nevada jury convicted Deutscher of first degree murder and of…
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