Legal Opinion

Bonin v. Vasquez

District Court, C.D. California

Decided November 9, 1992No. CV 91-0693-ERPublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

RAFEEDIE, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Petitioner, William George Bonin, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his 1982 convictions in Los An-geles of ten counts of first degree murder and his subsequent death sentence. 1 After his Los Angeles trial, petitioner stood trial in Orange County where he was convicted of four additional counts of first degree murder and received another death sentence. This order and opinion concerns only the Los Angeles case. 2

Petitioner has set forth 24 constitutional violations which…

2Cases cited67 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Estelle v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  5. Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. William George Bonin v. Arthur Calderon, as Warden of San Quentin State Prison James Rowland, Director of the California Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
  2. United States v. McVeighCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1998
  3. Nunnery v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 2011
  4. State v. GillardOhio Supreme Court · 1997
  5. Bonin v. CalderonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996

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