Legal Opinion
Jesus Avila v. George M. Galaza, Warden Attorney General of the State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 22, 2002No. 01-55149PublishedCited by 200 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge.
Jesus Avila (“Jesus”) appeals the district court’s denial of his federal habeas corpus petition. Jesus was convicted in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California, of attempted murder with the use of a firearm and sentenced to life plus eight years. Jesus asserts, among other claims in his state and federal habeas petitions, that he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel because his attorney failed to investigate or introduce at trial any evidence that Jesus’s brother, Ernesto Avila (“Ernesto”), was the shooter. Following an evidentiary hearing in…
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