Supreme Court of California

In an automatic appeal of convictions of first degree murder and attempted murder and the resulting death penalty, the judgment is affirmed in full over multiple claims of error, including but not limited to: 1) Wheeler/Batson; 2) restriction on voir dire; 3) pretrial and nontrial issues; 4) guilt trial evidentary issues; 5) prosecutorial misconduct at trial; 6) instructional error; and 7) penalty phase misconduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/30/2007
• Published 07/30/2007

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert R. Bryan, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan, Pamala Sayasane, San Francisco, and Jill Culbert for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias and Martin S. Kaye, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.