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RICHMOND v. LEWIS

No. 86-2382.

921 F.2d 933 (1990)

Willie Lee RICHMOND, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Samuel A. LEWIS, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections; and Roger Crist, Superintendent of the Arizona State Prison, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Vacated September 22, 1987.

Reargued and Submitted September 27, 1990.

Decided December 26, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy K. Ford, MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, Wash., for petitioner-appellant.

Jack Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, Ariz., for respondents-appellees.

Before ALARCON and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges, and STEPHENS, District Judge.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

Willie Lee Richmond, who was sentenced to death upon conviction of first-degree murder in Arizona state court, appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus. He contends that imposition of capital punishment will violate his rights under the sixth, eighth, and fourteenth amendments. We now affirm.

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This case arises from Richmond's conviction in 1974 for first-degree murder in the...

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