Legal Opinion
In Re Hitchings
California Supreme Court
Decided April 25, 1997No. S015706. Crim. No. 25064PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
LUCAS, C. J.
Keith Sanford Hitchings was convicted in Humboldt County Superior Court of the first degree murder of Rebecca Jensen and the second degree murder of James Jensen. (Pen. Code, § 187; all further statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated.) A multiple-murder special-circumstance allegation was also sustained. (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3).) The jury set the penalty at death.
Petitioner appealed and also filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging juror misconduct. This court found he stated a prima facie case for relief in his habeas corpus petition…
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