SEIDEL v. MERKLE

No. 97-15786.

146 F.3d 750 (1998)

Clyde Edwin SEIDEL, Petitioner-Appellee, v. W.A. MERKLE, Warden, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rene A. Chacon, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent-Appellant.

Arthur Pirelli, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Before: D.W. NELSON, REINHARDT, and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.


D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

Clyde Edwin Seidel, a California state prisoner, is serving a sentence of sixteen years to life for his second-degree murder conviction. Seidel petitioned the District Court for the Northern District of California for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. On reviewing the record from the state court proceedings in connection with the petition, the district court found that Seidel had stated a cognizable claim of ineffective...

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