Supreme Court of California

In automatic appeal from death sentence on multiple guilt and penalty phase issues, 1) failure to sequester jurors and question them individually on the death penalty during voir dire was not improper, 2) instruction to view defendant's extrajudicial statement "with caution" was not prejudicial, and 3) biblical references were not prosecutorial misconduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2002
• Published 05/30/2002

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  John F. Schuck, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Jose, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Wanda Hill Rouzan and Harry Joseph Colombo, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.