Mckinney v. Rees

993 F.2d 1378 36 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 1310 Michael Sheridan McKINNEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Robert M. REES, Superintendent of Deuel Vocation Institution, and Attorney General of the State of California, John K. Van De Kamp, Respondents-Appellants. No. 89-55869. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. April 28, 1993. As Amended June 10, 1993. Robert S. Henry, Deputy Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, CA, for respondents-appellants. Charles D. Weisselberg, Dennis E. Curtis, Michael Brennan, Mary Ann Soden (Law Student) and Robert Odson (Law Student), Post-Conviction Justice Project, University of Southern California Law Center, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner-appellee. 1 Joseph A. Burns, Dist. Attys Office, San Bernardino, CA, for amicus. 2 On Remand from the United States Supreme Court. 3 Before: BROWNING and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges, and ORRICK, * Senior District Judge. ORRICK, Senior District Judge: 4 Respondents-Appellants, Robert M. Rees, Superintendent of Deuel Vocational Institution, and John K. Van de Kamp, then Attorney General of the State of California ("State"), appealed the conditional grant of a writ of habeas corpus to Michael Sheridan McKinney entered by the United…