McGUIRE v. ESTELLE

No. 87-2522.

873 F.2d 1323 (1989)

Mark Owen McGUIRE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Wayne ESTELLE, Warden, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Hardgrove Voris, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Herbert F. Wilkinson, Supervising Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before SCHROEDER and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges, and STEPHENS, District Judge.


WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

Mark McGuire ("McGuire") appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a). McGuire was convicted of second degree murder and is now serving a fifteen year to life sentence in a California state prison. McGuire contends that the admission of evidence of prior acts against him at his trial was error and denied him due process of law...

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