Supreme Court of California

Conviction and death penalty for first-degree murder and residential robbery is vacated as to one multiple-murder special circumstances finding but otherwise affirmed in its entirety over claims that trial court erred during guilt phase on multiple evidentiary rulings, during penalty phase on multiple instructional rulings, and that the cumulative effects of errors were prejudicial and required reversal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2008
• Published 04/21/2008

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Peter R. Silten, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Pamela C. Hamanka, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey and Herbert S. Tetef, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.