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SANDERS v. DAVIS

No. 17-16511.

23 F.4th 966 (2022)

Ronald L. SANDERS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ronald DAVIS, Warden, San Quentin State Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 13, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nina Rivkind (argued), Berkeley, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Lewis A. Martinez (argued) and Ryan McCarroll , Deputy Attorneys General; Louis M. Vasquez , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Michael P. Farrell , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorney General; Rob Bonta , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Fresno, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Richard A. Paez, and Eric D. Miller, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

In 1982, Ronald Sanders was convicted for the murder of Janice Allen and sentenced to death following a jury trial. Sanders's attorney, Frank Hoover, had never represented a capital defendant before and conducted a minimal penalty phase investigation. Sanders told...

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