Supreme Court of California

Denial of petition for habeas relief is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff failed to prove that he was denied effective assistance of counsel by virtue of his attorney's failure to ask prospective jurors about their prior acquaintance with the victim; and 2) plaintiff failed to prove that one of the jurors was biased against him, or committed misconduct by failing to disclose a prior relationship with the victim, by prejudging the issue of penalty, or by failing to deliberate on the issue of penalty.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2009
• Published 05/04/2009

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeanne Keevan-Lynch, Mendocino, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner Clifford Stanley Bolden.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Ronald A. Bass and Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorneys General, Ronald S. Matthias, Glenn R. Pruden, Nanette Winaker and Frances Marie Dogan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.