Lavell Frierson v. Jeanne S. Woodford, Warden, of the California State Prison at San Quentin

PAEZ, Circuit Judge.

Lavell Frierson appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habe-as corpus petition challenging a California jury’s special circumstances findings and death penalty. verdict for his convictions for assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, *984kidnaping for the purposes of robbery, and first degree felony murder. In this opinion, we conclude that trial counsel failed to investigate and present important mitigation evidence at the penalty phase of the third trial. Had counsel’s investigation been adequate, the sentencing jury could have heard evidence that Frierson…