California Court of Appeal

The special circumstance finding was appropriate even though the person defendant killed was not the person he intended to kill. The proliferation of special circumstances does not mean the California death penalty law violates the Eighth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2004
• Published 05/27/2004

Judges

• FLIER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Christine Vento, 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, Assistant Attorney General, William T. Harter and Linda C. Johnson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.