Supreme Court of California

Defendant's conviction and death sentence for first degree murder are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) insufficiency of the evidence; 2) admission of evidence; 3) instructional errors; 4) jury instructions; 5) denial of a motion to modify the verdict; 6) cumulative error; and 7) meritless constitutional challenges.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2005
• Published 11/28/2005

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barry L. Morris, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Hayward, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Patrick J. Whalen, Julia Bancroft and Stephanie A. Mitchell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.