Davis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

COLIN RAKER DICKEY, Case No. 1:06-cv-00357-JLT

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER GRANTING CONDITIONAL WRIT

OF HABEAS CORPUS

RONALD DAVIS, Warden of San Quentin State Prison, 15 Respondent.1 16 Colin Raker Dickey filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 (West) challenging his 1991 first-degree murder conviction, death eligibility findings, and death sentence rendered in Fresno County Superior Court Case No. 416903-3. Petitioner was convicted after a jury trial of murdering Marie Caton and Louis Freiri, and the jury found true the special-circumstances of felony-murder robbery and felony-murder burglary and multiple murder; and found guilty of first-degree robbery of each victim and first-degree burglary of their residence. Petitioner admitted a prior felony conviction and waived personal presence at the penalty phase. The jury returned a death verdict. The California Supreme Court affirmed…