IN RE HITCHINGS

Docket No. S015706. Crim. No. 25064.

6 Cal.4th 97 (1993)

860 P.2d 466

24 Cal. Rptr.2d 74

In re KEITH SANFORD HITCHINGS on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

November 4, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Thomas Lundy and Richard J. Ingram, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Richard B. Iglehart and George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Morris Beatus, Dane R. Gillette and Ronald E. Niver, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

Keith Sanford Hitchings was convicted in Humboldt County Superior Court of the first degree murder of Rebecca Jensen and the second degree murder of James Jensen. (Pen. Code, § 187; all further statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated.) A multiple-murder special-circumstance allegation was also sustained. (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3).) The jury set the penalty at death.

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