OPINION
Petitioner Bennie Moses was 30 years old on Thanksgiving Day in 1979 when he and his brother drove around Oakland, California, visiting family and friends. At one of their stops, Moses, having consumed copious amounts of alcohol and talked about "getting even," visited Willie Rhodes, whose brother had killed Moses's father in a gambling dispute five years before. Moses shot Rhodes once at close range, killing him...
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