IN RE HARDY

Nos. S022153, S093694.

63 Cal.Rptr.3d 845 (2007)

41 Cal.4th 977

163 P.3d 853

In re James Edward HARDY on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

July 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fern M. Laethem, Lynne S. Coffin and Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defenders, and Philip M. Brooks, Robin Kallman and Peter Silten, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Petitioner James Edward Hardy.

Daniel E. Lungren, Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, George Williamson, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Keith H. Borjon, Susan Lee Frierson, William T. Harter, Robert S. Henry, Robert F. Katz, Sharlene A. Honnaka and Roy C. Preminger, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.


WERDEGAR, J.

I. Introduction

Petitioner James Edward Hardy was convicted in 1983, along with codefendant Mark Anthony Reilly, of the first degree murders of Nancy Morgan and her young son, Mitchell Morgan, and of conspiracy to commit murder to collect life insurance proceeds. (Pen.Code, §§ 187, 182.)1 The jury also sustained six special-circumstance allegations against both Hardy and Reilly, finding as to each murder...

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