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CULLEN v. PINHOLSTER

No. 09-1088.

131 S.Ct. 1388 (2011)

563 U.S. 170

Vincent CULLEN, Acting Warden, Petitioner, v. Scott Lynn PINHOLSTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 4, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Bilderback, II, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner.

Sean K. Kennedy, Los Angeles, CA, for respondent.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General of California, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. De Nicola, Deputy State Solicitor General, Lawrence M. Daniels, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Keith H. Borjon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, James William Bilderback II, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Counsel of Record, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.

Counsel of Record, Sean K. Kennedy, Federal Public Defender, Mark R. Drozdowski, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent.

Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the Court.*

Scott Lynn Pinholster and two accomplices broke into a house in the middle of the night and brutally beat and stabbed to death two men who happened to interrupt the burglary. A jury convicted Pinholster of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to death.

After the California Supreme Court twice unanimously denied Pinholster habeas relief, a Federal District Court held an evidentiary...

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