RICHARDSON v. SUPERIOR COURT OF TULARE COUNTY

No. S127275.

43 Cal.4th 1040 (2008)

CHARLES KEITH RICHARDSON, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TULARE COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

May 22, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Jay Moller and Karen Kelly, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Eric L. Christoffersen, Lloyd G. Carter and Kathleen A. McKenna, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

MORENO, J.

This writ proceeding is related to petitioner Charles Keith Richardson's automatic appeal from a judgment of death. (People v. Richardson (2008) 43 Cal.4th 959.) Here, we review the denial of petitioner's postconviction motion under Penal Code section 14051 for DNA testing of certain hair samples that were admitted at his capital trial.

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