WILLIAMS v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 24521.

34 Cal.3d 584 (1983)

668 P.2d 799

194 Cal. Rptr. 492

FREDRICK WINFIELD WILLIAMS, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PLACER COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

September 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert J. Trombley, Public Defender, and Thomas W. Condit for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

George Deukmejian and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, Robert H. Philibosian and Daniel J. Kremer, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Charles P. Just and David De Alba, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

BROUSSARD, J.

Shortly after dawn on June 12, 1980, the body of a young white woman, Heather Mead, age 22, was found on Industrial Avenue near Roseville in Placer County. A few days later, Kenneth Williams, a young black man, was arrested in connection with the homicide, and charged with murder with special circumstances, rape, burglary, kidnaping, kidnaping for robbery and robbery...

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