9th Cir.
09-99005

The court of appeals reversed a judgment denying a death row inmate’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. The court held that a California trial court committed federal constitutional error by excluding both the defendant and his attorney from closed in camera hearings at which the prosecution presented, and the trial court assessed the legitimacy of, justifications for the exercise of peremptory challenges as to all African-American and Hispanic jurors on the panel.