Legal Opinion
Clyde Everett Hall v. H.L. Whitley the Attorney General of the State of Nevada
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 3, 1991No. 89-16096PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Per curiam
Clyde Hall appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habe-as corpus. He contends that the district court erred in rejecting his claims of prose-cutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel.
A. Failure to Provide Transcripts on Appeal
Because we review the district court’s decision de novo, Allen v. Risley, 817 F.2d 68, 69 (9th Cir.1987), we must read the transcript of the trial court proceedings. Hall did not provide us with a transcript of the prosecutor’s closing argument, upon which he bases his claim of misconduct. Nor did he ensure that the…
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