Supreme Court of California

Defendants' murder convictions and death sentences are affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) ineffective assistance of counsel; 2) a motion to dismiss the information; 3) a Pitchess discovery motion; 4) judicial bias; 5) a motion for eyewitness identification expert; 6) evidence of a bag containing white powder; 7) severance motions; 8) Trombetta motion; 9) admission of evidence; 10) Faretta claims; 11) Marsden claims; 12) jury selection issues; 13) evidentiary rulings; 14) motions for mistrial; 15) shackling orders; 16) motions for continuance; 17) jury instructions; 18) hastening the verdict; 19) absences before and during the guilt phase; 20) sufficiency of the evidence; 21) competence issues; 22) notice of aggravating evidence; 23) prosecutorial misconduct; 24) a motion for new trial; 25) a motion to modify the verdict; 26) a request for the trial court's notes; 27) cumulative error; and 28) additional challenges to the state's death penalty statute and to other aspects of California law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2006
• Published 08/24/2006

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Eric S. Multhaup, Mill Valley, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Albert Lewis., Robert M. Myers, Sherman Oaks, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Anthony Cedric Oliver., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Sharlene A. Honnaka and Alan D. Tate, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.