Legal Opinion
Wooten v. Kirkland
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2008No. 06-56575PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-Appellant, James Wooten, was convicted of murder in the first degree in California state court. After unsuccessful direct appeals, Wooten petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The district court dismissed Wooten’s petition because of his failure to exhaust all issues that were the subject of the petition. Wooten appeals the district court’s dismissal claiming, among other things, that he was entitled to a stay of his petition under Rhines v. Weber,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Picard v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Rhines v. WeberSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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3Cited by242 opinions
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