Supreme Court of California

In automatic appeal from first degree murder conviction and imposition of death penalty, trial court did not err in 1) warning defendant regarding rights he would forgo in testifying in narrative form, 2) failing to hold a more extensive Marsden hearing at close of trial, or 3) denying modification of sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2003
• Published 05/22/2003

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Lynne S. Coffin, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Peter R. Silten and Arnold Erickson, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Donald Denicola, Robert S. Henry, Keith H. Borjon, John R. Gorey and Shawn McGahey Webb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.