UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT CHAD ALAN LEE, No. 09-99002

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:01-CV-02178- v. EHC RYAN THORNELL, OPINION Respondent-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Earl H. Carroll, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 14, 2023 San Francisco, California

Filed June 11, 2024 Before: Consuelo M. Callahan, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, and Daniel A. Bress, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bress 2 LEE V. THORNELL

SUMMARY*

Habeas Corpus / Death Penalty

The panel affirmed the district court’s denial of Chad Lee’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition, and the denial of Lee’s motion for leave to amend, in a case in which Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for three murders. In Claim 2, Lee argued that his trial counsel was co