California Court of Appeal

Defendant's conviction of first-degree murder is affirmed. Since the prosecution elected not to make an actual gang allegation, extensive testimony about gang culture was admitted in error; given the strength of the admissible evidence, however, the error was harmless.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• COOPER, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Verna Wefald, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Laura J. Hartquist, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.