Supreme Court of California

A defendant's failure to raise objections for errors committed at trial precludes consideration of those issues in a postconviction habeas corpus proceeding unless the claim depends substantially upon facts that defendant did not know of at the time of trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/23/2004
• Published 08/23/2004

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steinhart & Falconer, Piper Rudnick, James T. Fousekis, Roger R. Myers, Dorothy A. Streutker, Joshua K. Koltun and Lisa M. Sitkin, San Francisco, for Petitioner Ronald Harold Seaton.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood, Laura Whitcomb Halgren, Adrianne S. Denault, Holly D. Wilkens and Matthew Mulford, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.