California Court of Appeal

A conviction for felony vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other alcohol-related crimes is affirmed over defendant's claim that the court erred in admitting statements he made to officers who interrogated him in the intensive care unit of the hospital while he was recovering from surgery and heavily sedated with narcotic pain medications.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/07/2007
• Published 02/07/2007

Judges

• JOHNSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Laura Schaefer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Marc E. Turchin and David A. Wildman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.