Supreme Court of California

Defendant's petition for writ of habeas corpus is granted due to counsel's constitutionally inadequate representation of defendant at the penalty phase of the trial and the judgment of the trial court is vacated insofar as it imposes a sentence of death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2004
• Published 07/26/2004

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Cooley Godward Castro Huddleston & Tatum, Cooley Godward, Paul A. Renne, Steven L. Friedlander, San Francisco, Eric R. Fleming, Robert M. Galvan, Corpus Christi, TX, Noel C. Johnson, Tracy S. Kaplan, Jeffrey T. Lindgren, Walnut Creek, Julie C. Lythcott-Haims, Charles M. Schaible, San Francisco, David E. Garrett, Sarah L. Kowalski and Whitty Somvichian for Petitioner Larry Douglas Lucas.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Kenneth C. Byrne, Robert S. Henry, Susan Lee Frierson, John R. Gorey and Mary E. Sanchez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.