Legal Opinion
Daniels v. Woodford
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 2, 2005No. 02-99002, 02-99003PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge.
factual Background And Procedural History
Jackson Chambers Daniels, Jr., is a sixty-six-year-old paraplegic on California’s death row. On December 1, 1983, Daniels was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of police officers Dennis Doty and Phil Trust.
Daniels shot and killed the officers when they attempted to take him into custody following the denial of his appeal on an earlier robbery conviction. Daniels was sentenced to death on January 31, 1984.
I. Events Prior to the Instant Offense
To understand the circumstances of the…
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