Samuel Alfonso Williams, Jr. v. B.J. Bunnell, Warden, and Attorney General, State of California

26 F.3d 136 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Samuel Alfonso WILLIAMS, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. B.J. BUNNELL, Warden, and Attorney General, State of California Respondent-Appellee. No. 93-15442. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Feb. 7, 1994. Decided June 1, 1994. Before: POOLE, BEEZER, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Samuel Alfonso Williams, Jr., a California state prisoner, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Following a hung jury in his first trial on the charge of felony-murder, Williams was convicted in his retrial on that charge. On appeal, Williams contends that: (1) his retrial on the felony-murder charge violated the Double Jeopardy Clause; (2) the prosecution was collaterally estopped from presenting certain evidence at his retrial on the felony-murder charge; (3) the jury's inability to reach a verdict on the felony-murder charge in the first trial…