Benjamin Wai Silva v. Jeanne S. Woodford, Warden, San Quentin State Prison

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2002-02-22

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*828 OPINION BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge. Benjamin Wai Silva, who is on death row in California for the murder of Kevin Thorpe in 1981, appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Because we find that Silva’s counsel was constitutionally ineffective in…

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