Supreme Court of California

Evidence that victim may have been dead prior to his transport was insufficient to support a kidnapping for robbery conviction and kidnapping-murder special circumstance, but all other evidence was sufficient to support conviction on other counts, and the partial reversal does not require setting aside the death sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/25/2002
• Published 02/25/2002

Judges

•  CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Andrew Parnes, Ketchum, and E. Evans Young, Oakland, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Eric L. Christoffersen, Stephen G. Herndon and Paul E. O'Connor, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.