California Court of Appeal

Convictions and sentences for murder and related charges are affirmed over primary claim that admission of one defendant's statement to police at the joint trial of both defendants, where the defendant making the statement did not testify, violated Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) and People v. Aranda, 63 Cal.2d 518 (1965).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/23/2008
• Published 01/23/2008

Judges

• WILEY, J.**

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia Ihara, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Leo Anthony Reyes., Lynda A. Romero, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Sergio Ginez., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth N. Sokoler and Robert C. Schneider, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.