HOWARD v. CLARK

No. 08-55340.

608 F.3d 563 (2010)

Deandre Maurice HOWARD, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ken CLARK, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 15, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Rome, Van Nuys, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.

Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Xiomara Costello, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Viet H. Nguyen, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondent-appellee.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge, and NANCY GERTNER, District Judge.


GERTNER, District Judge:

Deandre Howard was convicted in California state court of murder and attempted murder. In this appeal of the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Howard claims that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to interview or elicit trial testimony from Arthur Ragland, the surviving victim of the crimes with which Howard was charged. He also contends that his attorney was ineffective in neglecting...

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