IN RE CLARK

Docket No. S022475.

5 Cal.4th 750 (1993)

855 P.2d 729

21 Cal. Rptr.2d 509

In re WILLIAM JOHN CLARK on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

July 29, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Eric S. Multhaup, Gail R. Weinheimer, Jean R. Sternberg, Denise Anton and Lynne Shatzkin Coffin, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Morris Beatus and Dane R. Gillette, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

William John Clark petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the judgment pursuant to which he is confined under a sentence of death is invalid. We conclude that his unjustified delay in presenting his claims bars consideration of the merits of the petition.

An exception to this bar would be recognized if, as a result of the defects of which petitioner...

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