Fields v. Brown

Opinion by Judge RYMER; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge GOULD; Dissent by Judge BERZON.

RYMER, Circuit Judge, with whom Chief Judge SCHROEDER and Judges KOZINSKI, O’SCANNLAIN, SILVERMAN, TALLMAN, CLIFTON, CALLAHAN, and BEA join, and with whom Judges McKEOWN, WARDLAW, and GOULD join in Parts I — III.

Stevie Lamar Fields, a California state prisoner, was convicted in 1979 for the *761robbery and murder of Rosemary Cobbs, a student librarian at the University of Southern California; the robbery of Clarence Gessendaner at gunpoint; the kid-naping for robbery, robbery, rape, forced oral…