Holly D. Wilkens (argued), Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Gary W. Schons , Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Adrianne S. Denault , Deputy Attorney General, Office of the California Attorney General, San Diego, CA; Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California; Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General; Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent-Appellee.
Jon M. Sands , Federal Public Defender; Therese Day , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ; Sean K. Kennedy , Federal Public Defender; Mark R. Drozdowski and C. Pamela Gómez , Deputy Federal Public Defenders, Los Angeles, CA, for Amici Curiae the California Appellate Project, the Federal Public Defenders of the District of Arizona, Central District of California, Eastern District of California, District of Nevada, and the Federal Defender Services of Idaho.
Before: SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Chief Judge, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.
OPINION
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
Teofilo Medina, Jr., a California death row inmate, appeals the district court's denial of his petitions for a writ of habeas corpus. Medina killed four people in a month-long crime spree in 1984. For these murders, the California courts imposed two death sentences: one in Orange County, the subject of the...
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