Legal Opinion
In Re Seaton
California Supreme Court
Decided September 29, 2004No. S067491PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KENNARD, J.
Petitioner Ronald Harold Seaton was sentenced to death after his conviction of murder (Pen. Code, § 187)1 with burglary-murder and robbery-murder special circumstances (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(A) & (G)). On his automatic appeal, we affirmed the judgment. (People v. Seaton (2001) 26 Cal.4th 598 [110 Cal.Rptr.2d 441, 28 P.3d 175].)
The petition for writ of habeas corpus challenges his capital murder conviction on numerous grounds. Four of those pertain to matters that petitioner could not have raised on appeal because of his failure to raise them in the trial court by a pretrial…
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