TAYLOR v. CARDWELL

No. 77-2432.

579 F.2d 1380 (1978)

Louis Cuen TAYLOR, Arizona State Prison Inmate No. 31176, Appellant, v. Harold CARDWELL, and the Attorney General of the State of Arizona, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Amended August 3, 1978.

Rehearing Denied August 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard A. Kashman (argued), Lieberthal & Kashman, Tucson, Ariz., for appellant.

Stefani J. Gobroy, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Phoenix, Ariz., for appellees.

Before HUFSTEDLER and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges, and FIRTH, District Judge.


GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Taylor was convicted in state court of twenty-eight counts of murder resulting from an arson-caused hotel fire in Tucson, Arizona, in December 1970. After the Arizona Supreme Court affirmed his conviction, State v. Taylor, 112 Ariz. 68, 537 P.2d 938 (1975), he filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The district court denied the petition without an...

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