California Court of Appeal

Conviction for murder and possession of a deadly weapon is affirmed where there was error in using defendant's assertion of his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights as evidence of guilt, but the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/12/2009
• Published 03/12/2009

Judges

• CANTIL-SAKAUYE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark D. Greenberg, Oakland, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Julie A. Hokans, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Robert Gezi, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.