Legal Opinion
In Re Fields
California Supreme Court
Decided December 3, 1990No. S009491. Crim. 24212PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BROUSSARD, J.
Defendant was convicted of the murder of Rosemary C., with the special circumstance of premeditated murder during the commission of robbery, and sentenced to death under the 1977 death penalty law. He was also convicted of numerous crimes against other persons. On December 9, 1983, we affirmed the convictions and sentence. (People v. Fields (1983) 35 Cal.3d 329 [197 Cal.Rptr. 803, 673 P.2d 680].)
After the United States Supreme Court denied his petition for certiorari, defendant filed the present petition for habeas corpus with this court. We issued an order to show cause,…
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