Legal Opinion
Lisenba v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 2, 1942No. 4 and 5PublishedCited by 1,357 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Roberts
The petitioner was convicted of murder, and sentenced to death, in the Superior Court of California for Los Ange-les County. The Supreme Court of California affirmed the judgment March 21, 1939, two judges dissenting.1 A rehearing was granted, the case was reargued and, October 5, 1939, the decision was reaffirmed and the former opinion adopted and amplified, two justices dissenting.2 No question arising under the Constitution of the United States had been raised or decided. In a second petition for rehearing, the petitioner, for the first time, asserted that his conviction violated the…
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3Cited by1,357 opinions
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