Supreme Court of California

The court properly admitted the defendant's spontaneous, un-coerced admission to his wife that he had raped and killed the victim, even if the admission occurred three weeks after another jury convicted defendant of similar crime with another victim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2001
• Published 11/01/2001

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Ross Thomas, San Francisco, and John Ward, Berkeley, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood, Janelle M. Boustany and Robert B. Shaw, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.