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IN RE BITTAKER

Docket No. A076514.

55 Cal.App.4th 1004 (1997)

In re LAWRENCE S. BITTAKER on Habeas Corpus.

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

June 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael Satris, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Petitioner.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Peter J. Siggins, Assistant Attorney General, Allen R. Crown and Catherine A. McBrien, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

OPINION

STRANKMAN, P.J.

We hold that an inmate who has been declared a vexatious litigant retains the right to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus unencumbered by vexatious litigant procedures which apply to the filing of a civil action or proceeding.1

BACKGROUND

In 1979, Lawrence S. Bittaker (petitioner) kidnapped five teenage girls, raped four of them, tortured at least one, and...

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