SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by the Superintendent of the Washington State Penitentiary, Tana Wood, from a judgment of the district court granting a writ of habeas corpus to petitioner Mitchell Rupe. Rupe was convicted of first degree murder for the shooting deaths of two bank tellers and sentenced to death. The district court declined to disturb the underlying convictions but granted the writ and vacated the sentence on two grounds. First, it ruled...
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