TAYLOR v. MADDOX

No. 02-55560.

366 F.3d 992 (2004)

Leif TAYLOR, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Thomas M. MADDOX, Interim Director; George Galaza; Cal Terhune, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 10, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sung B. Park, Van Nuys, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.

Deborah J. Chuang, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondents-appellees. Chuang was joined on the briefs by Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General.

Before: KOZINSKI and NELSON, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.


KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for a crime committed when he was sixteen years old. The conviction hinges on a full confession petitioner gave after he was arrested in his home late one night and interrogated by two police detectives past 3:00 a.m. Pursuant to the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), Pub.L. No. 104-132, § 104, 110 Stat. 1214, 1219 (1996), we consider...

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