Supreme Court of California

A conviction and death sentence for first degree murder and related offenses is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) double jeopardy; 2) vindictive prosecution; 3) voir dire procedures; 4) a Batson claim; 5) admission of evidence; 6) sufficiency of the evidence; 7) jury instructions; 8) cumulative error; 9) constitutionality of the lying-in wait special circumstance; 10) exclusion of evidence; 11) prosecutorial misconduct; and 12) the constitutionality of the death penalty law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/06/2006
• Published 04/06/2006

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lynne S. Coffin and Michael T. Hersek, State Public Defenders, under appointments by the Supreme Court, and Mark Hammond, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood, Larissa Karpovics Hendren and Marvin Mizell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.