Schad v. Ryan

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Senior Circuit Judge:

Edward Harold Schad is scheduled to be executed by the State of Arizona on October 9, 2013. He was convicted in 1985 of first degree murder in the strangling death of Lorimer Grove. Federal habeas proceedings began in 1997 and in the intervening years have traversed every twist and turn in the path of federal habeas. The case reached Supreme Court review for the third time last summer. The history of the litigation is summarized in its opinion, Ryan v. Schad, — U.S. —, 133 S.Ct. 2548, 2549-50, 186 L.Ed.2d 644 (2013) (per curiam). We set forth a somewhat…