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PROCUNIER v. ATCHLEY

No. 44.

400 U.S. 446 (1971)

91 S.Ct. 485

27 L.Ed.2d 524

PROCUNIER, DIRECTOR, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS v. ATCHLEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1971

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Granucci, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and William D. Stein, Deputy Attorney General.

Charles A. Legge argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1959 a jury in a California trial court found the respondent guilty of murdering his wife by firing six bullets into her body at close range. A key prosecution witness at the trial was Ray Travers, an insurance agent. Two days after the respondent's wife was killed, Travers visited the respondent in jail at the latter's request, and the two conversed regarding an...

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