California Court of Appeal

The retaliatory witness-killing special circumstance, under Penal Code section 190.2, subdivision (a)(10), applies whenever the victim was killed for the mere act of testifying and not only for what he said while testifying.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/28/2001
• Published 06/28/2001

Judges

• LAMBDEN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Juliet B. Haley, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Neal I. Sanders, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.