DOODY v. SCHRIRO

No. 06-17161.

548 F.3d 847 (2008)

Johnathan Andrew DOODY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Dora B. SCHRIRO; Megan Savage; Attorney General of the State of Arizona, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 20, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan M. Dershowitz and Victoria B. Eiger, Dershowitz, Eiger & Adelson, P.C., Cambridge, MA, and New York, N.Y. for the petitioner-appellant.

Terry Goddard, Attorney General of Arizona, Randall M. Howe, Chief Counsel, and Joseph T. Maziarz, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Section, Phoenix, AZ for the respondents-appellees.

Before: B. FLETCHER, MARSHA S. BERZON, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.


BERZON, Circuit Judge:

Seventeen-year-old Johnathan Doody was interrogated overnight for twelve hours straight. When, after several hours, he fell silent and refused to answer the officers' questions, the officers persisted, asking dozens of questions, many over and over again, and telling him he had to answer them. The resulting confession was used in Arizona state court to convict him of multiple counts of murder and robbery. He now petitions for a writ of habeas...

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