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MAHRT v. BEARD

No. 15-16404.

849 F.3d 1164 (2017)

Gregory MAHRT, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Jeffrey A. BEARD, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Stu Sherman, Warden, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 1, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela K. Critchfield (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Peggy S. Ruffra and Jeffrey M. Laurence , Supervising Deputy Attorneys General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for Respondents-Appellants.

Paul Kleven (argued), Law Offices of Paul Kleven, Berkeley, California, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Before: William A. Fletcher, Morgan B. Christen, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

The State of California appeals from a grant of habeas corpus to Petitioner Gregory Mahrt. The district court found that Mahrt's state-court guilty plea rested on a violation of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

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