Supreme Court of California

In a case arising from circumstances in which defendant engaged in a series of random attacks, by shooting at people on or near a freeway in Oakland, his conviction and death sentence is affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) alleged Wheeler error; 2) Crawford error; 3) denial of a motion to dismiss certain counts; 4) the sufficiency of the evidence of a lying-in-wait special circumstance; 5) the constitutionality of the lying-in-wait special circumstance instruction; 6) prosecutorial misconduct; and 7) the constitutionality of the death penalty statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2007
• Published 06/04/2007

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard I. Targow, Sebastopol, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias, Dane R. Gillette and Seth K. Schalit, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.