John Harvey Adamson v. James G. Ricketts, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1988-12-22

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FERGUSON, Circuit Judge: John Harvey Adamson filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in district court *1014 after exhausting all of his state remedies. He contends that his death sentence after a conviction of first degree murder violated various provisions of the federal Constitution. The district court denied his petition, and a three-judge panel of this cou…

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