Douglas Bradford v. Daniel Paramo

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DOUGLAS GORDON BRADFORD, No. 21-55038

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:17-cv-05756- v. JAK-JC

DANIEL PARAMO, Warden,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California John A. Kronstadt, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 15, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed May 3, 2024

Before: Marsha S. Berzon and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and John Antoon II,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Rawlinson; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Antoon

* The Honorable John Antoon II, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, sitting by designation. SUMMARY**

Habeas Corpus

The panel reversed the district court’s denial of Douglas Bradford’s habeas corpus petition challenging his first- degree murder conviction, and remanded with instructions to grant a conditional writ. This “cold case” culminated in a conviction, thirty-five years after a murder, based entirely on circumstantial evidence…