Supreme Court of California

A murder conviction and death sentence is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) jury selection issues; 2) jury instruction; 3) sufficiency of the evidence; 4) cumulative error; 5) denial of mistrial and severance motions; 6) admission and exclusion of evidence; 7) a stipulation; 8) defendant-s absence during a readback of testimony; 9) verdict inconsistencies; 10) juror misconduct; 11) access to sealed records; 12) prosecutorial misconduct; 13) effective assistance of counsel; 14) the constitutionality of the death penalty law; 15) and international law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2006
• Published 05/15/2006

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark E. Cutler, Sacramento, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Eric L. Christopherson and Louis M. Vasquez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.