Legal Opinion
In re Lessard
California Supreme Court
Decided February 18, 1965No. Crim. No. 7548PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTobriner, 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, 375 P.2d 46].)
*501To give the factual background for the legal issues which we shall discuss in this opinion we quote in part from our former opinion: “. . . on June 15, 1959, the deceased registered at the Travel Lodge…
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