PEOPLE v. VAN HOUTEN

Docket Nos. 33752, 37644.

113 Cal.App.3d 280 (1980)

170 Cal. Rptr. 189

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LESLIE VAN HOUTEN, Defendant and Appellant. In re LESLIE VAN HOUTEN on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

December 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Paul J. Fitzgerald, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant and Petitioner.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Howard J. Schwab, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BAFFA, J.*

I

Leslie Van Houten was convicted in 1971 of two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder, along with codefendants, Charles Manson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins. After the penalty phase, the same jury imposed death sentences upon all defendants. The resulting judgment was appealed directly to the Supreme Court, and while the case was pending...

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