Steven James v Charles L. Ryan
Opinion
Opinion
Fletcher, J.
ORDER
This court’s Opinion filed October 12, 2011, and reported at 659 F.3d 855 (9th Cir.2011), is withdrawn, and is replaced by the attached Opinion.
With the filing of the new Opinion, the panel votes unanimously to deny the petition for rehearing and the petition for rehearing en banc.
The full court has been advised of the petition for rehearing en banc and no judge of the court has requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter en banc. Fed. R.App. P. 35.
The petition for rehearing and the petition for rehearing en banc, filed November 23, 2011, are DENIED.
No further petitions for rehearing or rehearing en banc will be accepted.
OPINION
Death-sentenced prisoner Steven James appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. James, Lawrence Libberton, and Martin Norton were convicted in separate proceedings in Arizona state court of crimes connected to the 1981 murder of Juan Maya. James, Libberton, and Norton severely beat Maya, drove him to an isolated desert area, killed him by shooting him and striking him with rocks, and threw his body down an abandoned mine shaft. Norton, who was 14 years old at the time of the murder, agreed to…