Supreme Court of California

A conviction and death sentence for murder in the commission of a robbery or attempted robbery is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) admission of evidence; 2) jury instruction; 3) exclusion of evidence; 4) cumulative error; 5) defendant's impeachment with statements taken in violation of Miranda; 6) prosecutorial misconduct; 7) the constitutionality of California's death penalty law; 8) the delay inherent in the capital appellate system; and 9) the constitutionality of the methods of execution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2006
• Published 07/10/2006

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph Baxter, Santa Rosa, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood and Teresa Torreblanca, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.