Supreme Court of California

California law gives a criminal defendant the right to make a personal statement in mitigation of punishment but only while under oath and subject to cross-examination by the prosecutor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/24/2008
• Published 07/24/2008

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard M. Doctoroff, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Ryan B. McCarroll, Linda M. Murphy and David M. Baskind, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.