California Court of Appeal

Defendant's manslaughter conviction and sentence are affirmed where the trial court adequately apprised the jury that it could not convict defendant of the greater crime of voluntary manslaughter unless it unanimously found beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant acted with the intent to kill or with a conscious disregard of life.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/19/2009
• Published 08/19/2009

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Cliff Gardner, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Catherine Chatman and Jeffrey A. White, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.