Legal Opinion
Gibson v. Clanon
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 8, 1980No. 79-2680PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of California denying petitioners’ writ of habe-as corpus. The two petitioners, Gibson and Justice, are presently serving life sentences in California state prisons for the 1973 murder conviction of a prison guard at San *852Quentin. Gibson and Justice allege that the trial jury that convicted them impermissi-bly relied upon facts that were not in evidence. In doing so they claim they were denied their constitutional right to a fair trial. The district court, which reviewed the state court…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- People v. WatsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1956
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Sheppard v. MaxwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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3Cited by79 opinions
- United States v. John Bagnariol, United States of America v. Gordon L. Walgren, United States of America v. Patrick GallagherCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
- Salvatore Joseph Marino v. Dan Vasquez, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
- State v. BarnesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1997
- United States v. SimmonsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
- United States v. VaroudakisCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2000
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