IN RE SASSOUNIAN

Docket No. S037469.

9 Cal.4th 535 (1995)

887 P.2d 527

37 Cal. Rptr.2d 446

In re HARRY M. SASSOUNIAN on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

February 2, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Talcott, Lightfoot, Vandevelde, Woehrle & Sadowsky, Michael J. Lightfoot, Cleary & Sevilla and Charles M. Sevilla for Petitioner.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Cheif Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey, William T. Harter and David F. Glassman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

Gil Garcetti, District Attorney, George M. Palmer, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Andrew J. McMullen and William B. Patrick, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

This proceeding arises out of a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in this court by Harry M. Sassounian seeking to vacate a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.

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The judgment under challenge was rendered after jury trial in a capital prosecution that received widespread publicity, within California and without. The subject of the proceeding was the killing of Kemal Arikan...

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