Supreme Court of California

False statements made by witnesses during testimony, viewed separately or together, were not substantially material or probative on the issue of guilt or punishment in petitioner's first degree murder trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2003
• Published 06/09/2003

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Harvey R. Zall,Fern M. Laethem and Lynne S. Coffin, State Public Defenders, under appointments by the Supreme Court, Barry P. Helft, Assistant State Public Defender, Joel Kirshenbaum, Michael Pescetta, Kathleen M. Scheidel, Musawwir Spiegel, Valerie Hriciga and Mary McComb, Deputy State Public Defenders;  Anderson and Zimmer and Richard Zimmer, Bakersfield, for Petitioner Michael Anthony Cox.


• For Appellees:
  
• John K. Van de Kamp,Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, Steve White, George Williamson and David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Arnold O. Overoye and Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorneys General, William G. Prahl, Jane N. Kirkland, Edmund D. McMurray, Harry Joseph Colombo, John G. Mclean and R. Todd Marshall, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.