JONES v. DAVIS

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Mongan (argued), Deputy Solicitor General; James William Bilderback, II and Keith H. Borjon , Supervising Deputy Attorneys General; Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California; Edward C. DuMont , Solicitor General; Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorney General; Lance E. Winters , Senior Assistant Attorney General; and A. Scott Hayward and Herbert S. Tetef , Deputy Attorneys General, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent-Appellant.

Michael Laurence (argued), Cliona Plunkett , Nisha Shah , and Tara Mikkilineni , Habeas Corpus Resource Center, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Kent S. Scheidegger , Sacramento, CA, as and for Amicus Curiae Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.

John T. Philipsborn , Law Offices of John T. Philipsborn, San Francisco, CA; Christopher W. Adams , Charleston, SC, for Amici Curiae California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al., and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

William Pollak , Andrew Yaphe , and Serge Voronov , Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Menlo Park, CA; Sharon Katz , Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, N.Y., for Amici Curiae Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, et al.

Molly Alana Karlin , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel H. Bromberg , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, for Amicus Curiae Death Penalty Focus.

Mark Wine and Christina M. Von der Ahe, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Irvine, CA; Robert Rosenfeld , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco, CA; and Trish Higgins and Suman Tatapudy , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Sacramento, CA, for Amici Curiae Loni Hancock, et al.

Ethan A. Balogh , Jay A. Nelson , and Evan C. Greenberg , Coleman, Balogh & Scott LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae Empirical Scholars Concerning Deterrence and the Death Penalty.

Paula M. Mitchell , Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Amicus Curiae Loyola Law School's Alarcón Advocacy Center and Project for the Innocent.

Christopher B. Craig and Steven J. Olson , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Amicus Curiae Correctional Lieutenant Marshall Thompson.

Dr. Robert V. Justice and Emery D. Soos, Jr. , Beverly Hills, CA, as and for Amici Curiae.

David Loftis , New York, N.Y., as and for Amicus Curiae The Innocence Project, Inc.

Opinion by Judge GRABER, Concurrence by Judge WATFORD.