California Court of Appeal

Conviction for second-degree murder is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) inadequate jury instructions which did not expressly state that the prosecution had to prove every element of his crime beyond a reasonable doubt; and 2) the trial court's rejection of a special instruction concerning coercive police interrogations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2008
• Published 06/09/2008

Judges

• SWAGER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John F. Schuck, Palo Alto, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Bruce Ortega, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.