Supreme Court of California

Defendant's convictions and death sentence for first degree murders, attempted murders, and assault with a semiautomatic firearm, are affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) a failure to exclude testimony that a victim accused defendant of sexually molesting her; 2) prosecutorial misconduct; 3) the constitutionality of the death penalty statute and instructions; 4) cumulative error; and 5) the Vienna Convention on Consular Rights and a related judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2007
• Published 11/29/2007

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Marianne D. Bachers, Deputy State Public Defender, 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, David Delgado-Rucci and Adrianne S. Denault, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.