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IN RE PRATT

Docket No. 37534.

112 Cal.App.3d 795 (1980)

170 Cal. Rptr. 80

In re ELMER GERARD PRATT on Habeas Corpus.

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

December 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Stuart Hanlon, Margaret Ryan, John B. Mitchell, Lewis Myers, Fred Okrand, Mark Rosenbaum, Leonard I. Weinglass, Victor Goode, Jonathan Lubell and Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., for Petitioner.

Laurence R. Sperber as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, William R. Pounders and Michael Nash, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

OPINION

HANSON (Thaxton), J. —

INTRODUCTION

In 1972 following a protracted trial a jury convicted petitioner/defendant Elmer Gerard Pratt (hereinafter defendant and/or Pratt) of the murder in the first degree (Pen. Code, § 187) of Caroline Olsen in Santa Monica on December 18, 1968 (known as the tennis court murder); of two counts of robbery in the first degree...

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