95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7405, 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 12,693 Jimmie Wayne Jeffers v. Samuel A. Lewis, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections and Roger Crist, Warden, Arizona State Prison

68 F.3d 295 95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7405 , 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 12,693 Jimmie Wayne JEFFERS, Petitioner, v. Samuel A. LEWIS, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections and Roger Crist, Warden, Arizona State Prison, Respondents. No. 95-99019. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Sept. 12, 1995. 1 Before: PREGERSON and CANBY, Circuit Judges and WILSON, District Judge * . ORDER 2 This is an appeal from the district court's denial of a second petition for habeas corpus by Jimmie Wayne Jeffers, an Arizona prisoner under a sentence of death scheduled to be carried out at 12:01 tomorrow morning, September 13, 1995, about four hours from now. The district court denied the petition and the stay of execution, but granted a certificate of probable cause. Jeffers now asks us to stay his execution so that this court can review his claim on the merits. We stay his execution. 3 The claim that Jeffers asserts is a right to the appointment of conflict-free counsel, to permit him to raise for the first time claims of ineffective assistance of counsel at the guilt and sentencing phases of his trial, and on direct appeal from his conviction and sentence. An amicus brief filed in the…