COOK v. KERNAN

No. 17-17257.

948 F.3d 952 (2020)

Walter Joseph COOK III, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Scott KERNAN, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cormac Early (argued), Jones Day, Washington, D.C.; Craig Stewart and Kelsey Israel-Trummel , Jones Day, San Francisco, California; for Petitioner-Appellant.

Sarah J. Farhat (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Peggy S. Ruffra , 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.

Dissent by Judge Murguia


OPINION

In 1994, a California jury convicted petitioner, Walter Joseph Cook, III, of three counts of first-degree murder, along with a special circumstance of multiple murders under California law, and sentenced him to death. Following his state habeas proceeding over a decade later, Cook's sentence was reduced...

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