California Court of Appeal

In a criminal case involving a bank robber who robbed the same bank on parole wherein defendant claimed a lack of requisite mens rea for a robbery conviction by asserting his dependency on "institutionalization" as a defense, the conviction is affirmed over challenges regarding: 1) a standard motive instruction given to jury; 2) erroneous jury instructions; 3) exclusion of defense evidence; and 4) alleged prosecutorial misconduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2008
• Published 05/15/2008

Judges

• MARCHIANO, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Susan Burke, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Seth K. Schalit, Kelly M. Croxton and Brent W. Wilner, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.