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406 U.S. 813 92 Supreme Court Reporter 1931 32 United States Reports Lawyer’s Edition 2d Series KF101.8 U54 511 Earnest James AIKENS, Jr., Petitioner,v.State of CALIFORNIA. Number 68—5027. Argued Jan. 17, 1972. Decided June 7, Anthony G. Amsterdam, Stanford, Cal., for petitioner. Ronald M. George, Los Angeles, respondent. PER CURIAM. 1 Petitioner in this case, which has been orally argued and is now sub judice, filed a Suggestion Mootness Motion Remand based on the intervening decision California People versus Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628, 100 Cal.Rptr. 152, 493 Pacific Reporter, 2nd 880 (1972). That declared capital punishment unconstitutional under Article 1, § 6, state constitution. The rested an adequate ground State's petition writ certiorari was denied. 958, 2060, 344. Anderson case that its fully retroactive stated any prisoner currently sentence death could superior court to modify judgment. thus no longer faces realistic threat execution, issue granted—the constitutionality penalty Federal Constitution—is moot his case. Accordingly dismissed. 2 Certiorari

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