Supreme Court of California

In an automatic appeal in a death penalty case, the conviction and death sentence are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) the exclusion of a juror for cause; 2) admission of autopsy photographs; 3) jury instructions; 4) the trial court's rejection of proposed penalty phase instructions; 5) the constitutionality of California's death penalty law; and 6) cumulative error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2007
• Published 05/31/2007

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Gary D. Garcia, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Sharlene A. Honnaka and John Yang, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.