Legal Opinion
James Styers v. Charles Ryan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 30, 2015No. 12-16952PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BEA, Circuit Judge:
We -must determine whether a state court’s constitutional error in failing to consider certain evidence offered in mitigation of a death sentence can be corrected by the court that committed the error, rather than require the convicted murderer to be sentenced anew, but before a jury.
James Lynn Styers, an Arizona prisoner, was convicted of first degree murder and other charges and sentenced to death. Styers’s first degree murder conviction and his sentence of death were affirmed by the Arizona Supreme Court. State v. Styers, 177 Ariz. 104, 865 P.2d 765, 770 (1993)…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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