Case Name: John Michael COFFEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Walter E. CRAVEN, Warden, California State Prison at Folsom, Respondent-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1971-06-09
Citations: 442 F.2d 1337
Docket Number: No. 24858
Parties: John Michael COFFEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Walter E. CRAVEN, Warden, California State Prison at Folsom, Respondent-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 442
Pages: 1337–1337

Head Matter:
John Michael COFFEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Walter E. CRAVEN, Warden, California State Prison at Folsom, Respondent-Appellant.
No. 24858.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
June 9, 1971.
Joyce F. Nedde, Deputy Atty. Gen., (argued), Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for respondent-appellant.
Joseph A. Filippelli (argued), of Filippelli & Eisenberg, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner-appellee.
Before CHAMBERS and CARTER, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, District Judge.
The Honorable William J. Jameson, United States District Judge for the District of Montana, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The order granting a writ of habeas corpus is reversed.
We find that Coffey's psychiatric evidence based upon observation years later was too remote to be of much value in this case in evaluating the situation at the time of trial.
The record seems clear that the state trial judge had no doubt as to the competency of Coffey at any critical time.
We cannot find that the happenings in the state process at the trial or in the legal processes preceding the trial show any denial of any federal constitutional right.