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Habeas

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th Circuit on Monday withdrew and replaced a decision awarding habeas relief to Pedro Imperial Vega, a man convicted of sexually abusing his stepdaughter, since his trial attorney was constitutionally deficient in failing to call as a witness the priest to whom the victim later recanted her allegations.

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