BOARDMAN v. ESTELLE

No. 90-55238.

957 F.2d 1523 (1992)

Gary Stewart BOARDMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Wayne ESTELLE, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1992.

Opinion Supplemented, Rehearing Denied March 11, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip A. Trevino, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner-appellant.

David F. Glassman, Donald F. Roeschke, Deputy Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent-appellee.

Before NORRIS, HALL and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


TROTT, Circuit Judge:

The most persuasive counsel may not be able to speak for a defendant as the defendant might, with halting eloquence, speak for himself.

Green v. United States, 365 U.S. 301, 304, 81 S.Ct. 653, 655, 5 L.Ed.2d 670 (1961) (Frankfurter, J., writing for the plurality).

Gary Boardman asserts he was denied due process of law because the state trial court...

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