CLARK v. CHAPPELL

No. 14-99005.

936 F.3d 944 (2019)

Richard Dean CLARK, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Kevin CHAPPELL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 5, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Grele (argued), San Francisco, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Alice B. Lustre (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Glenn R. Pruden , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Jeffrey M. Laurence , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: Consuelo M. Callahan, Sandra S. Ikuta, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Per Curiam

California state prisoner Richard Dean Clark appeals from the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his conviction and capital sentence for the first-degree murder and rape of fifteen-year-old Rosie Grover in 1985.

On appeal, Clark raises sixteen claims, of which six were certified: (1) ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to advise Clark to accept a plea offer;...

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