Supreme Court of California

A murder conviction and death sentence is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) denial of a suppression motion; 2) a witnesses' immunity agreement; 3) defendant's statements to defense mental health experts as "fruit of the poisonous tree"; 4) jury instructions; 5) cumulative error; 6) admission of evidence; 7) sufficiency of evidence; 8) the constitutionality of the state death penalty law; 9) disproportionality of the death sentence; 10) conflict of interest; 11) delayed execution; and 12) international law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2006
• Published 05/11/2006

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• R. Clayton Seaman, Jr., under appointment by the Supreme Court, Prescott, AZ, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Esteban Hernandez, Frederick B. Clark, Teresa Torreblanca, William M. Wood, Adrianne S. Denault and Lise S. Jacobson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.