Sanders

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DEC 18 2024

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TROY SANDERS, No. 23-4110 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellant, 2:23-cv-05047-JLS-AS v.

MEMORANDUM*

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS AND

REHABILITATION; COUNTY OF

KERN; RAYBON JOHNSON; DOES,

through 50, inclusive,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Josephine L. Staton, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 5, 2024 Pasadena, California

Before: SCHROEDER, CALLAHAN, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges.**

In June 2018 a jury found Troy Sanders guilty of first-degree murder and

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Evan J. Wallach, United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation. attempted murder. The California Court of Appeal for the Fifth District reversed

on March 11, 2021, holding there was insufficient evidence to convict…