Cockett v. Ray

333 F.3d 938 Janice COCKETT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Howard RAY, Warden of the Central Oklahoma Correctional D.C. No. Facility; The Attorney General Of The State Of Hawaii; Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County Of Honolulu, State Of Hawaii, Respondents-Appellees. No. 02-15078. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 6, 2003. Filed June 20, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED David J. Gierlach and Michael Jay Green, Honolulu, HI, for the petitioner-appellant. Alexa D.M. Fujise, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Honolulu, HI, for the respondents-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii; Helen Gillmor, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-00873-HG. Before: LEAVY, RYMER, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges. LEAVY, Circuit Judge: 1 Hawaii state prisoner Janice Cockett ("Cockett") appeals the district court's dismissal of her federal habeas corpus petition as limited by 28 U.S.C. § 2254 which challenged her 1995 conviction for the murder of her husband, Frank Cockett. The district court dismissed Cockett's Confrontation Clause claim and claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel as procedurally…