Legal Opinion
Coleman v. Calderon
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 28, 1998No. Nos. 97-99013, 97-99014PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:
Russell Coleman is a California prisoner under sentence of death. He filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied relief from the conviction but granted relief from the sentence, because the state court jury instructions violated Hamilton v. Vasquez, 17 F.3d 1149 (9th Cir.1994). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We agree with the district court and we affirm.
FACTS
On September 5,1979, between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., Shirley Hill was raped, sodomized and strangled to death inside a small bungalow next…
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