California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant of multiple counts, including second degree murder, assault upon a peace officer, and driving under the influence causing injury, arising from defendant's flight from police in a vehicle pursuit which resulted in the deaths of two individuals, is affirmed where: 1) defendant did not forfeit the blood sample's chain of custody claim on appeal, but the assertion of error lacks merit; and 2) the trial court did not commit reversible error when it denied defendant's motion for a new trial on the ground that new evidence had been discovered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2010
• Published 08/09/2010

Judges

• JOHNSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Victor J. Morse, Edmund G. Brown, Jr