Legal Opinion
David Leon Stokes, II v. Dora B. Schriro, Director
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 6, 2006No. 04-16454PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge.
A jury found David Leon Stokes, II (Stokes) guilty of attempted kidnapping and attempted robbery in Arizona state court. The jury also found the offenses to be “dangerous.” At sentencing, the trial judge opted to sentence Stokes to twenty years as a repetitive offender whose previous convictions were for non-dangerous offenses. The judge then enhanced the sentence to twenty-five years by finding aggravating circumstances. After Stokes’s habeas petition was denied in district court, we granted a certificate of ap-pealability (COA) on the issue of whether Stokes “was…
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