Legal Opinion
William Charles Payton v. Jeanne Woodford, Warden, William Charles Payton v. Jeanne Woodford, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 1, 2002No. 00-99000, 00-99003PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge Paez; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Tallman.
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge.
A California jury convicted Petitioner-Appellee William Charles Payton of the first degree murder and rape of Pamela Montgomery, and the attempted murder of Patricia Pensinger and her son, Blaine Pensinger. The jury imposed the death penalty. Payton appealed both the underlying conviction and the death sentence.
At the penalty phase of a trial in which a death sentence is at stake, a state may not preclude the jury from considering any mitigating circumstance “that the defendant proffers…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- United States v. OlanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Darden v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by65 opinions
- Brown v. PaytonSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
- Pirtle v. MorganCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2002
- Thomas Clyde Bowling, Jr. v. Phillip Parker, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2003
- In re the Personal Restraint of GlasmannWashington Supreme Court · 2012
- Alcala v. WoodfordCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
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