Legal Opinion
Gary Lee Fisher v. Ernest C. Roe, Warden Attorney General of the State of California, Michael Collins v. Theo White, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 27, 2001No. 00-55031, 00-55035PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:
OVERVIEW
Gary Fisher and Michael Collins were convicted in California state court in 1992, of murder. Ernest Roe and Theo White, the wardens of the prisons in which Fisher and Collins are incarcerated, appeal the district court’s order granting Fisher and Collins writs of habeas corpus. The appel-lees’ petitions for federal habeas relief were based on a single incident alleged to have occurred at their joint trial: a read-back during the jury’s deliberations of supposedly critical testimony, without the knowledge or participation of the defendants and their attorneys. The…
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