IN RE MORGAN

No. S162413.

50 Cal.4th 932 (2010)

114 Cal. Rptr. 3d 591

237 P.3d 993

In re EDWARD PATRICK MORGAN on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

August 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael G. Millman for Petitioner Edward Patrick Morgan.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Holly D. Wilkens, Randall D. Einhorn and Ronald S. Matthias, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.


OPINION

KENNARD, J.

Thirteen years ago, after he was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, indigent petitioner Edward Patrick Morgan invoked his statutory right to this court's appointment of habeas corpus counsel to challenge his conviction and his death sentence. Today, he still lacks such counsel because of a critical shortage of qualified attorneys willing to represent capital prisoners in state habeas corpus proceedings...

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