California Court of Appeal

Conviction for first degree murder based on retrial, and after a federal court granted defendant's habeas petition, is affirmed over a claim that the federal court-s habeas decision was binding under principles of collateral estoppel or law of the case and precluded the murder conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/06/2007
• Published 04/06/2007

Judges

• SWAGER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Kyle Gee, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, For Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Bruce Ortega, Deputy Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, For Plaintiff and Respondent.