California Court of Appeal

A conviction for second degree murder is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) jury instruction; 2) admission of evidence of a prior incident, 3) admission of defendant's statement that he used a knife, and 4) a failure to instruct the jury on imperfect defense of others.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2006
• Published 06/27/2006

Judges

• NICHOLSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark L. Christiansen, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and J. Robert Jibson and Jesse Witt, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.