Harris v. Superior Court of California

How later courts describe this case

• noting that dismissal of habeas corpus petition is not proper when it would jeopardize the timeliness of a collateral attack
• victim carjacked, kidnapped, robbed, raped and shot execution style after which she survived for a few minutes in a remote area completely nude on a cold November evening
• trial court's refusal to provide specific jury instructions is not reversible error if the general instructions are sufficiently broad to enable the jury to understand the law and the issues involved
• victim kidnapped, robbed, raped, and murdered “execution style” by her parking garage valet
• in which the court found that a defendant’s act of aiming a lethal weapon and discharging it in the direction of his victims supported a finding by the trier of fact that the defendant acted with the specific intent to kill