Supreme Court of California

Habeas petitioner failed to carry his burden of establishing that trial counsel's purported failure to investigate and adequately present: 1) a mental defense at the guilt phase; or, 2) mitigating evidence at the penalty phase, amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2003
• Published 01/27/2003

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  John W. Clark, San Jose, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner James Robert Scott.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Steven D. Matthews, Susan Lee Frierson, Sharlene A. Honnaka, Karen Bissonnette and Brad D. Levenson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.