• Alfaro v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2017-07-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-07-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Cormac J. Carney, District Judge, Presiding Before: JAY S. BYBEE, MILAN D. SMITH, JR., and MORGAN CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael David Weinstein (argued) and Celeste Bacchi, Deputy Federal Public Defenders; Hilary Potashner, Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioner-Appellee.
    for defendant: Robin Helene Urbanski (argued), Deputy Attorney General; James William Bilderback II, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Michael J. Mongan, Deputy Solicitor General; Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Edward C. DuMont, Solicitor General; United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California; for Respondent-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 15-55337

    California's alleged systemic delay in administration of death penalty did not excuse habeas petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies (M.D. Smith, J.)