Paul Bolin v. Ron Davis

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PAUL C. BOLIN, No. 16-99009 Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. v. 1:99-cv-05279-

LJO-SAB

RONALD DAVIS, Warden, San Quentin State Prison, Respondent-Appellee. OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Lawrence J. O’Neill, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 2, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed September 15, 2021

Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, and Daniel A. Bress, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bress SUMMARY *

Habeas Corpus / Death Penalty

The panel affirmed the district court’s denial of California state prisoner Paul Bolin’s habeas corpus petition challenging his jury conviction for two counts of first-degree murder and his capital sentence.

Applying the deferential standards of review in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the panel held that the district court properly denied Bolin’s claims that his trial counsel was ineffective in not renewing a motion to change venue based on pretrial publicity and in failing to…