HERNANDEZ v. CHAPPELL

No. 11-99013.

923 F.3d 544 (2019)

Francis G. HERNANDEZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Kevin CHAPPELL, Warden, California State Prison At San Quentin, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 14, 2019.

Amended May 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracy Casadio (argued) and Margo A. Rocconi , Deputy Federal Public Defenders; Hilary Potashner , Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioner-Appellant.

Gary A. Lieberman (argued) and Xiomara Costello , Deputy Attorneys General; Jason Tran , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Lance E. Winters , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

Kent S. Scheidegger and Kymberlee C. Stapleton , Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California, for Amicus Curiae Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

The opinion filed on January 14, 2019, is amended as follows: on slip opinion page 13, delete the following text: A defendant faces a higher burden of showing prejudice at the guilt phase than at the penalty phase. See Raley v. Ylst, 470 F.3d 792, 802 (9th Cir. 2006) ("The bar for establishing prejudice is set lower in death penalty sentencing cases than in guilt-phase challenges and noncapital cases.").

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