Legal Opinion
Terry Dixon v. Renee Baker
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 2, 2017No. 14-16644PublishedCited by 241 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge:
Terry Dixon is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for attempted murders committed while Dixon was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. After both his direct appeal and his pro se state postconviction proceedings proved unsuccessful, Dixon timely filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. His petition alleged, among other things, the ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failure to raise a voluntary-intoxication defense and for failure to…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Pace v. DiGuglielmoSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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3Cited by241 opinions
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