Michael Jessup v. David Shinn

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MICHAEL PAUL JESSUP, No. 18-16820 Petitioner-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 2:15-cv-01196-

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DAVID SHINN, Director; ATTORNEY

GENERAL FOR THE STATE OF

ARIZONA, OPINION

Respondents-Appellants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Neil V. Wake, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 9, 2022 Phoenix, Arizona

Filed April 21, 2022

Before: Mary H. Murguia, Chief Judge, Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judge, and Sidney A. Fitzwater, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Graber

* The Honorable Sidney A. Fitzwater, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, sitting by designation. SUMMARY **

Habeas Corpus

The panel reversed the district court’s judgment granting habeas corpus relief to Petitioner Michael Paul Jessup, who challenged his sentence of life without the possibility of any form of release, which an Arizona state court imposed for the first-degree murder Petitioner committed when he was 17 years old.

The district judge…