Supreme Court of California

In a capital case where the original death sentence was vacated because the trial court erroneously considered a probation report in ruling on defendant's automatic application to modify the penalty, on remand the trial court denied the application for modification and reinstated the death sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/24/2004
• Published 06/24/2004

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Robert M. Sanger, Santa Barbara, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey and Margaret E. Maxwell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.