Supreme Court of California

In an automatic appeal from imposition of the death penalty, a murder with robbery special circumstance conviction is affirmed, but prejudicial error in death-qualification voir dire of a jury mandates reversal of judgment as to the penalty of death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2002
• Published 07/25/2002

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Mark D. Greenberg, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Oakland, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan and John H. Deist, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.