Legal Opinion
McKenna v. McDaniel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 15, 1995No. Nos. 93-99001, 93-99002PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUG, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner, Patrick Charles McKenna, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus contesting the validity of his conviction for first-degree murder, a crime for which he was sentenced to death. The district court upheld the conviction but held that the jury *1486instruction regarding depravity of mind was unconstitutionally vague as given to the jury and, therefore, was an impermissible aggravating circumstance upon which to base a sentence of death. The State appealed the ruling on the sentence and McKenna cross-appealed, claiming constitutional errors relating to both his…
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