Oloth Insyxiengmay v. Richard Morgan

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Oloth Insyxiengmay was convicted of two counts of murder in the first degree and two counts of assault in the first degree for an attack on four high school teens who egged his gang’s hangout. Following his conviction and a series of appeals in the Washington state courts, In-syxiengmay petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus. He now contends that the district court erred in dismissing three of the six claims on the ground that the claims were proeedurally barred and denying his Sixth Amendment claim that he and his counsel were improperly excluded…