Legal Opinion
Raynard Cummings v. Michael Martel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 11, 2015No. 11-99011PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
Raynard Cummings was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to *1137death for killing Los Angeles Police Officer Paul Verna. The California Supreme Court affirmed his conviction on direct appeal. People v. Cummings, 4 Cal.4th 1233, 18 Cal.Rptr.2d 796, 850 P.2d 1 (1993). It then denied his petitions for post-conviction relief. The district court denied Cummings’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.
Factual Background
On June 2, 1983, Los Angeles Police Officer Paul Verna pulled over an Oldsmobile for rolling through a stop…
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