Dwayne Woods v. Stephen Sinclair

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

In 1997, a Washington jury found Dwayne A. Woods guilty of two counts of *1116aggravated murder in the first degree, one count of attempted murder in the first degree, and one count of attempting to elude a police vehicle. After two days of deliberation, the jury sentenced Woods to death. The Washington State Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence, State v. Woods, 143 Wash.2d 561, 23 P.3d 1046 (2001), and denied his petition for post-conviction relief, In re Woods, 154 Wash.2d 400, 114 P.3d 607 (2005). Woods then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in…