California Court of Appeal

Defendant's convictions for murder and kidnapping are reversed where prejudicial error occurred in the murder charge, since jury instructions addressed only the possibility that defendant himself was the killer, and the evidence did not satisfy the asportation element of the kidnapping offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2004
• Published 12/14/2004

Judges

• RUSHING, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dallas Sacher, Santa Clara, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, John H. Deist, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.