Supreme Court of California

A nine-year delay between homicide and prosecution for murder by poison is justified where forensic technology did not exist to establish cause of death at the time of the homicide.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2001
• Published 07/16/2001

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Horace N. Freedman, Culver City, and Jeffrey Schwartz, Indio, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson and David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell, Shirley A. Nelson and Stephen G. Herndon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.