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Defense Fails to Present Diminished Capacity, Ninth Circuit Vacates Murder Convictions

by Christopher Zoukis

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted a California state prisoner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and vacated the prisoner’s convictions for first degree murder. The Court, in a 2-1 panel decision, found that the trial attorney failed to provide effective ...

 

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