Supreme Court of California

In consolidated petitions for writs of habeas corpus involving first degree murder with special circumstances that it was committed for financial gain, the petition for a writ of habeas corpus in Hardy II, S093694, is granted in part and denied in part. The balance of the petition in Hardy I, which raises a number of other issues, is denied as having failed to raise a prima facie case for relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2007
• Published 07/26/2007

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Fern M. Laethem,Lynne S. Coffin and Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defenders, and Philip M. Brooks, Robin Kallman and Peter Silten, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Petitioner James Edward Hardy.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel E. Lungren, Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., 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, Keith H. Borjon, Susan Lee Frierson, William T. Harter, Robert S. Henry, Robert F. Katz, Sharlene A. Honnaka and Roy C. Preminger, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.