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IN RE GAINES

Docket No. Crim. 8821.

63 Cal.2d 234 (1965)

404 P.2d 473

In re NATHANIEL GAINES on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 20, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Wolfson for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Robert R. Granucci and Jennifer L. Bain, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

PETERS, J.

This is a petition for habeas corpus urging that a judgment of death must be reversed because, during the penalty trial of petitioner, errors of the type condemned by People v. Morse, 60 Cal.2d 631 [36 Cal.Rptr. 201, 338 P.2d 33], occurred. It is contended that such errors may be raised collaterally on habeas corpus, that they require a reversal, and that, therefore...

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