Lawyers for a death row inmate are accusing a San Jose judge of bias and a San Francisco appellate justice of being deceitful during an evidentiary hearing earlier this year over alleged discriminatory jury practices in Alameda County.
In documents filed earlier this month with the California Supreme Court, attorneys at San Francisco’s Habeas Corpus Resource Center contend that Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin Murphy conducted a hearing that was “virtually designed to elicit unreliable half-truths.”
