Legal Opinion
Ybarra v. McDaniel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 6, 2011No. 07-99019PublishedCited by 207 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:
Over thirty years ago, petitioner Robert Ybarra, Jr., was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979 kidnapping, rape, and murder of sixteen-year-old Nancy Griffith in her hometown of Ely, Nevada. The Nevada Supreme Court affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct appeal. After Ybarra was denied state post-conviction relief, he petitioned the United States District Court for the District of Nevada for a writ of habeas corpus. He now appeals the district court’s denial of habeas relief.
Ybarra challenges the following four district court rulings for which a…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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- Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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