BENSON v. CHAPPELL

No. 13-99004.

958 F.3d 801 (2020)

Richard Allen BENSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Kevin CHAPPELL, Warden, San Quentin State Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Vacated February 7, 2019.

Resubmitted April 24, 2020 Pasadena, California.

Filed May 1, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia A. Morrissey (argued), Santa Monica, California; John R. Grele (argued), San Francisco, California; for Petitioner-Appellant.

David F. Glassman (argued) and A. Scott Hayward , Deputy Attorneys General; James William Bilderback II , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Lance E. Winters , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Attorney General's Office, Los Angeles, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Murguia.


OPINION

In 1986, Richard Allen Benson confessed to sexually molesting two little girls and murdering the girls, their mother, and their baby brother. He was tried and convicted for murder and other crimes and sentenced to death. After his conviction and sentence were affirmed and the California Supreme Court had...

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