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IN RE JACKSON

Docket No. Crim. 7704.

61 Cal.2d 500 (1964)

393 P.2d 420

39 Cal. Rptr. 220

In re LAWRENCE AKIN JACKSON on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 6, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan Brotsky and Henry M. Elson for Petitioner.

Earl Klein as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Robert R. Granucci and Henry B. Lasky, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

TOBRINER, J.

The single question that we must answer here is whether a writ of habeas corpus properly enables us to review the sentence of death pronounced against petitioner after a penalty trial embracing the errors described in People v. Morse (1964) 60 Cal.2d 631 [36 Cal.Rptr. 201, 388 P.2d 33], and which resulted in the prejudice found...

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