Supreme Court of California

A conviction and death sentence is affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) challenges for cause; 2) denial of an additional peremptory challenge; 3) cumulative error and prejudice; 4) a speedy trial motion; 5) statements to police; 6) shoe print evidence; 7) loss of the victim's car; 8) a detective's testimony; 9) the sufficiency of the evidence; 10) jury instructions; 11) alleged misconduct by a detective; 12) a motion to modify verdict; and 13) constitutional challenges to the death penalty law and related claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2007
• Published 08/09/2007

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Russell S. Babcock, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood and Quisteen S. Shum, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.