Morales v. Woodford, No. 99-99020 (9th Cir.) (388 F.3d 1159) (October 21, 2004) (Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld)
This case is noted for Judge M. Margaret McKeown's dissent, which she began by stating: “The bedrock principles of our Eighth Amendment jurisprudence require that a state's capital sentencing scheme must ‘genuinely narrow the class of persons eligible for the death penalty.’ Zant v. Stephens, 462 U.S. 862, 877, 77 ...
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