Anthony Lee CHANEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Terry STEWART, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee

Opinion by Judge HAWKINS; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge REINHARDT.

MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

Arizona state prisoner Anthony Lee Chaney (“Chaney”) appeals the denial of his ha-beas corpus petition seeking review of his 1983 conviction and death sentence. Chaney’s petition raises some twenty claims, the bulk of which we affirm for the reasons set forth in the order and memorandum of the district court.1 We focus on the constitutional parameters of a state’s duty to provide psychiatric testing and expert assistance when a criminal defendant raises mental defect as a…