Court Opinion

ID: 9488198
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:39:00.438008+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:45.214089
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JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
In a virtually identical case, the Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to permit the district court to consider the same issues raised by petitioner in this proceeding. See Lackey v. Scott, — U.S. -, 115 S.Ct. 1818, 131 L.Ed.2d 741 (1995). We are obliged to follow the same course here. It is entirely inappropriate for this court to resurrect our vacated opinion in Richmond v. Lewis, 948 F.2d 1473, 1491-92 (9th Cir.1990), rev’d on other grounds, — U.S. -, 113 S.Ct. 528, 121 L.Ed.2d 411 (1992), vacated, 986 F.2d 1583 (9th Cir.1993), which rejected these claims five years before the Supreme Court’s action in Lackey. I would also grant the stay for the reasons given by Judge Norris in his dissenting panel opinion.