Legal Opinion
Kelly Koerner v. George A. Grigas
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 28, 2003No. 01-15345PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge D.W. NELSON; Dissent by Judge BEEZER.
OPINION
D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Kelly Koerner (“Koerner”), a Nevada prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. On appeal, Koer-ner' has pursued only his claim that he was denied a direct appeal from his original conviction. The district court dismissed this claim as procedurally defaulted because it found that the Nevada Supreme Court had relied on an independent and adequate…
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