California Court of Appeal

Because jurors are restricted to the determination of factual questions and may not themselves decide what the law is or what it should be, defendant's claim that CALJIC No. 1.00 improperly instructs a jury "in a way that prohibit[s] jury nullification," was rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2002
• Published 02/01/2002

Judges

• HULL, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Gary V. Crooks, San Francisco, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Harry Joseph Colombo, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Charles Fennessey, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.