Supreme Court of California

A conviction and death sentence for murder, burglary, and robbery is affirmed, with the exception of a sentence enhancement for prior convictions, over claims of error regarding: 1) instructional error; 2) Miranda and Doyle issues; 3) admission of evidence; 4) the effect on the jury of defendant's misconduct during trial; 5) a refusal to excuse defendant from the courtroom; 6) an agreement to excuse defendant; 7) adequacy of the record; 8) prosecutorial misconduct; 9) sufficiency of the evidence; 10) a Batson-Wheeler claim; 11) impeachment evidence; 12) cumulative error; 13) the constitutionality of the death penalty law; and 14) delay in imposing capital punishment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/10/2006
• Published 04/10/2006

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Gold, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass and Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorneys General, Ronald S. Matthias and Allan Yannow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.