IN RE CAMERON

Docket Nos. Crim. 10330, 10563.

68 Cal.2d 487 (1968)

439 P.2d 633

67 Cal. Rptr. 529

In re WILLIAM CAMERON on Habeas Corpus. (Two Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George T. Davis, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Edsel W. Haws, Roger E. Venturi and Edward A. Hinz, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, C.J.

After two trials in which the jury disagreed, a third jury in 1959 found William Cameron guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Cameron has filed two petitions for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that involuntary confessions were introduced into evidence and that the prosecution deliberately suppressed evidence indicating that he was innocent. The two proceedings have been consolidated.

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