California Court of Appeal

Conviction for second degree murder is affirmed where there was no reasonable likelihood that due to the closing arguments of the prosecution and defense the jury was misled or otherwise did not have an adequate understanding of the prosecution's burden of proof.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2009
• Published 03/24/2009

Judges

• DAVIS, J.*

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven Schorr, San Diego, 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, Stephen G. Herndon and Carlos A. Martinez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.