Legal Opinion
Cooper v. McGrath
District Court, N.D. California
Decided April 14, 2004No. C 02-5569 SIPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
ILLSTON, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
This matter is now before the court for consideration of the merits of Aaron Lyn-dale Cooper’s pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus concerning his 1996 conviction for murder, kidnapping and carjacking. For the reasons discussed below, the petition will be granted.
BACKGROUND
Cooper was convicted of kidnapping, carjacking and murder. To summarize, the evidence showed that on August 3, 1995, three men (identified by some witnesses as Cooper, Cross and Kingdom) were in a parked blue car near an intersection…
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