Per Curiam. After a jury trial in a state court in California, respondent Russell Coleman was convicted of the September 5, 1979, *142 rape, sodomy, and murder of Shirley Hill. The jury’s two special circumstances findings of rape and sodomy made Coleman death-penalty eligible under California law. See People v. Coleman, <span class="citation" data-id…
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