California Court of Appeal

Defendant, convicted of 20-year-old charges of first-degree murder with rape and sodomy special circumstances and sentenced to life without possibility of parole, unsuccessfully appeals. Trial court did not abuse its discretion per Evidence Code section 352 in excluding certain third-party culpability evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2004
• Published 01/27/2004

Judges

• PREMO, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Eric D. Share, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Amy Haddix, Deputy Attorney General, Michael Chamberlain, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff/Respondent, The People., Sixth District Appellate Program, In association with Kyle Gee, Oakland, for Defendant/Appellant, Michael Adams.