Supreme Court of California

Conviction and death sentence for first degree murder is affirmed where trial court did not commit reversible error by: 1) allowing defendant to exhaust his peremptory challenges to remove two alternate jurors; 2) giving jury instructions accompanied by usual instructions on reasonable doubt, presumption of innocence, and the government's burden of proof; and 3) removing a juror and jury instructions on sentencing factors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2008
• Published 03/27/2008

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Evan Young, 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 Honnaka and Xiomara Costello, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.