Supreme Court of California

Admission of crime scene photographs and videotape of victim's bodies during the guilt phase of a death penalty trial proper to bolster the credibility of the witnesses, to show that a murder actually occurred and to show that a planned robbery took place.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2001
• Published 12/03/2001

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Susan K. Marr, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Brentwood, TN, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Garrett Beaumont and Carl H. Horst, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.