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IN RE JONES

Docket No. Crim. 6965.

57 Cal.2d 860 (1962)

372 P.2d 310

22 Cal. Rptr. 478

In re MARVIN D. JONES on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 12, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. DeCristoforo, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Edsel W. Haws, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

PETERS, J.

The petitioner, Marvin D. Jones, seeks habeas corpus on the ground that on two occasions certain named custodial officials at Folsom State Prison, where Jones was incarcerated1 inflicted cruel and inhuman punishment upon him. The petition, filed in propria persona in August of 1961, alleges that in October 1960 an Islam scrapbook was confiscated from him by Lieutenant Campoy, who then, together with Lieutenants Piper, Johnson...

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