Supreme Court of California

In a habeas proceeding in a capital murder case, an order to show cause is discharged where defendant failed to prove the allegations in his petition regarding judicial collusion with the prosecution to secure a conviction and death judgment, and the prosecution's discriminatory exercise of peremptory challenges.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2006
• Published 05/18/2006

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Laurence,Gary D. Sowards, San Francisco, Shelley J. Sandusky, Shani Pines and Bethany L. O'Neill for Petitioner Fred H. Freeman.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler and Dane R. Gillette, Assistant Attorneys General, Bruce Ortega, Morris Lenk, Seth K. Schalit, Ronald S. Matthias and Geoffrey S. Lauter, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.