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Mar 27, 2020

News Brief — Federal Appeals Court Upholds Conviction and Death Sentence for California Death-Row Prisoner Rodney Berryman, Sr.

NEWS (3/27/20): California — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (pictured) has affirmed a California federal district court’s denial of habeas corpus relief for death-row prisoner Rodney Berryman, Sr. The court ruled that jurists of reason could disagree with the district court’s rejection of Berryman’s claim that his trial lawyer was ineffective for failing to investigate and present mental health evidence that the killing was not premeditated or…