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LISENBA v. CALIFORNIA

Nos. 4 and 5.

314 U.S. 219 (1941)

LISENBA v. CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 8, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Morris Lavine for petitioner.

Messrs. Everett W. Mattoon, Assistant Attorney General of California, and Eugene D. Williams, with whom Messrs. Earl Warren, Attorney General, and Frank Richards, Deputy Attorney General, were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner was convicted of murder, and sentenced to death, in the Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County. The Supreme Court of California affirmed the judgment March 21, 1939, two judges dissenting.1 A rehearing was granted, the case was reargued and, October 5, 1939, the decision was reaffirmed and the former opinion adopted and amplified, two justices dissenting...

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