Education and Early Career
George grew up in Beverly Hills, the son of a Hungarian immigrant mother and French immigrant father. A 1957 graduate of Beverly Hills High School, George earned his B.A. from Princeton University in 1961 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1964.
Upon graduating from Stanford, George was a Deputy California Attorney General from 1965–1972. As a Deputy Attorney General, he argued unsuccessfully on behalf of the State of California before the United States Supreme Court in Chimel v. California in 1969. The following year, he again represented California before the U.S. Supreme Court, this time successfully defending the death penalty in McGautha v. California. In 1971, he represented California as an amicus curiae in support of the successful argument of the State of Illinois in Kirby v. Illinois.
In 1972, his final year as a Deputy Attorney General, George unsuccessfully argued in favor of the death penalty before the California Supreme Court in California v. Anderson but was successful in defending the conviction of Sirhan Sirhan in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator and 1968 presidential candidate. The ruling in California v. Anderson resulted in the dismissal of Aikens v. California as moot; George was to have represented the State of California in this case.
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