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IN RE LESSARD

Docket No. Crim. 7548.

62 Cal.2d 497 (1965)

399 P.2d 39

42 Cal. Rptr. 583

In re ALBERT LESSARD on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 18, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Lessard, in pro. per., Donald B. McCaw and Valentine C. Hammack, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Thomas S. Harte for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., and Edward P. O'Brien, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

TOBRINER, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he is imprisoned under a sentence of death in violation of rights guaranteed to him by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. A jury found petitioner guilty of first degree murder and fixed the penalty at death. We affirmed the judgment. (People v. Lessard (1962) 58 Cal.2d 447 [25 Cal.Rptr. 78...

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