Legal Opinion
Tracy Jones v. Gloria Henry
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 7, 2011No. 09-15550, 09-16120UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM *
In 1996, Tracy Maxxizzine Jones pleaded no contest in California Superior Court to an assault offense that can be sentenced as a felony or a misdemeanor. The sentencing judge treated the offense as a felony, and because Jones had two prior qualifying felonies, she received twenty-five years to life in prison under California’s “three strikes” law. Following a number of collateral challenges to her sentence in state court, Jones filed a federal habeas petition in May 2005, raising several claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. The State of California moved to dismiss *719Jones’s…
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