California Court of Appeal

Defendant's murder conviction is affirmed over his challenges that 1) his confession should have been excluded as the product of an improper promise of leniency, 2) the trial court erroneously excluded expert testimony, and 3) the evidence does not support the conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2004
• Published 08/27/2004

Judges

• KLEIN, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Law Offices of Dennis A. Fischer, Dennis A. Fischer, Santa Monica, and John M. Bishop, Fresno, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Ana R. Duarte, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.