CREECH v. ARAVE

No. 86-3983.

928 F.2d 1481 (1991)

Thomas E. CREECH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. A.J. ARAVE, Warden, Idaho State Penitentiary; Al Murphy, Director, Idaho State Board of Corrections; Jim Jones, Attorney General, State of Idaho, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Deferred August 25, 1988.

Resubmitted July 12, 1990.

Decided March 27, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cliff Gardner, Fiedler & Gardner, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner-appellant.

Lynn E. Thomas, Sol. Gen., State of Idaho, Boise, Idaho, for defendants-appellees.

Before BEEZER, HALL and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.


CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Thomas E. Creech appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Creech is currently incarcerated at the Idaho State Correctional Institution ("ISCI") on the basis of three Idaho murder convictions. The conviction which gives rise to this appeal is based on Creech's 1981 murder of David Jensen, a fellow inmate at ISCI. Creech pleaded guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced...

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