P. v. Long CA4/2
In December 2005, a jury found defendant and appellant Kimberly Louise Long, guilty of second degree murder. (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a).) The trial court sentenced defendant to prison for a term of 15 years to life. Defendant petitioned the California Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus based, in part, upon ineffective assistance of trial counsel and defendant’s actual innocence. In 2015, the Supreme Court issued an order to show cause, before the trial court, as to why defendant’s trial counsel was not ineffective and why defendant is not actually innocent of the murder. The trial court granted the writ of habeas corpus on the ground of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The trial court found defendant failed to meet her burden of proving actual innocence.
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