Michael Robert Pulido v. Chris Chrones, Warden, Michael Robert Pulido v. Chris Chrones, Warden

We must consider whether a state court erred in affirming a conviction for murder.

I

Michael Pulido was tried and convicted for his role in the robbery of a Shell gasoline station in San Mateo, California and the murder of an employee. He claims that the California Supreme Court wrongly affirmed his conviction.

A

Because Pulido’s claims are fact-intensive, we consider the facts — as presented by the California Supreme Court in its opinion affirming Pulido’s conviction — in some detail:

Sometime between 1 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. on May 24,1992, Ramon Flores, the cashier at a Shell gas station in San…