The Second Appellate District affirmed a judgment as modified. In the published portion of its opinion, the court held that the findings of a federal court on a defendant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus after his conviction for murder did not preclude a California trial court from independently determining that the first-trial identifications of the defendant by two eyewitnesses to his alleged crimes were admissible at his retrial.
Katie Jones and her infant daughter Mitchshalae Jones were in the front yard of their home early in an evening with Katie’s brothers, John Paul Jones and Albert Jones.
