Court Opinion

ID: 9481460
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Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:19:29.345727+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:19.698731
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NOONAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
In Harris v. Vasquez, 913 F.2d 606, 618 (9th Cir.1990) this court unanimously held as follows:
Harris’s claim that he was subjected to an unlawful interrogation was not raised in his prior federal habeas petitions. It was not presented to the California Supreme Court until March 16, 1990. Because this issue could have been raised in his previous collateral attacks on his state conviction in the federal court system, it is an abuse of the writ and a violation of Rule 9(b) for Harris to raise it in this third petition for federal habeas corpus relief.
There is no allegation in the affidavits supporting the petitioner’s motion to remand that the state was responsible for keeping Daniel Harris, Joey Abshire or Sonny Wisdom from interrogation by counsel for Harris prior to 1990. There is no allegation in these affidavits that Daniel Harris was unavailable for questioning by counsel for Harris prior to 1990. There is nó allegation that Sonny Wisdom was unavailable for questioning by counsel for Harris prior to 1990. There is no allegation that Joey Abshire was unavailable for questioning by counsel for Harris prior to 1990. There is no reason why the issue of Joey Abshire’s role should be raised at this late date and no reason has been presented to depart from the law that is established. I dissent from the order.