SAN FRANCISCO Capital defense counsel can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em.
That’s what the California Supreme Court must have been thinking Tuesday, as the justices’ tough threat to clamp down on lengthy habeas corpus petitions with monetary sanctions was quickly withdrawn when the court ran into an unrepentant defense lawyer and a courtroom packed with his colleagues wielding a threat of their own.
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