IN RE JONES

Docket No. S016628. Crim. No. 25000.

13 Cal.4th 552 (1996)

In re TROY LEE JONES on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

June 27, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richard L. Phillips and Charles M. Bonneau, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Steve White and George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell, W. Scott Thorpe and Clayton S. Tanaka, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


OPINION

GEORGE, C.J.

While his appeal from a judgment imposing the death penalty was pending before this court, petitioner Troy Lee Jones filed the petition for writ of habeas corpus that gave rise to the present proceeding. The petition, in part reiterating petitioner's contentions on appeal, alleged that numerous failings by his trial attorney, Hugh Wesley Goodwin (defense counsel), deprived petitioner of his right to the effective...

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