People v. Rosoto
California Supreme Court
Paul M. Posner, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioners.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
THE COURT.
Petitioners, Joseph Rosoto, John Frank Vlahovich, and Donald Glen Franklin, were convicted of murder in the first degree and of several additional crimes. We affirmed the judgments imposing the death penalty in People v. Rosoto (1962) 58 Cal.2d 304 [23 Cal.Rptr. 779, 373 P.2d 867]. Petitioners subsequently sought by writ of habeas corpus to set aside the judgments claiming that a key prosecution witness, Michael Rosoto (Michael), the half-brother of Joseph Rosoto, committed perjury and that the prosecuting authorities were aware of the perjury. We appointed a referee who…
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