IN RE GAY

No. S130263.

8 Cal.5th 1059 (2020)

In re KENNETH EARL GAY on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

February 13, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary D. Sowards , Jennifer Molayem , Patricia Daniels and Kimberly Dasilva for Petitioner Kenneth Earl Gay.

Lawrence J. Fox , George W. Crawford , Sadella D. Crawford ; Drinker Biddle & Reath and Erin E. McCracken for Ethics Bureau at Yale as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner Kenneth Earl Gay.

Debevoise & Plimpton, Donald Francis Donovan , Stuart C. Naifeh , Ina C. Popova and Samantha J. Rowe for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner Kenneth Earl Gay.

Bill Lockyer, Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra , Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson , Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Pamela C. Hamanaka and Lance E. Winters , Assistant Attorneys General, Sharlene A. Honnaka , James William Bilderback and David F. Glassman , Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the State of California.


OPINION

Petitioner Kenneth Earl Gay was convicted of the first degree murder of a police officer and sentenced to death. In an earlier habeas corpus proceeding, we found that Gay's trial counsel had defrauded Gay in order to induce Gay to retain him instead of the public defender, and then had gone on to commit serious...

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