UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT MAUREEN MCDERMOTT, No. 17-99005

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:04-cv- 00457-DOC v. DEBORAH K. JOHNSON, Warden, OPINION Central California Women's Facility,

Respondent-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 20, 2023 Seattle, Washington

Filed October 26, 2023

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wardlaw 2 MCDERMOTT V. JOHNSON

SUMMARY *

Habeas Corpus / Death Penalty

The panel affirmed the district court’s denial of Maureen McDermott’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging her California conviction and death sentence for attempted murder and first-degree murder. In the petition, McDermott argued, inter alia, that the prosecutor committed pre