Supreme Court of California

In the context of Batson claims, evidence of comparative juror analysis must be considered in the trial court and even for the first time on appeal if relied upon by defendant and the record is adequate to permit the urged comparisons. A conviction for crimes arising from a fatal shooting is affirmed is affirmed over a Wheeler/Batson claim regarding jury selection.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• A.M. Weisman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Diamond Bar, for Defendant and Appellant., Cliff Gardner;  Lawrence A. Gibbs;  and Elisabeth Semel for California State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Rabbi Allen B. Bennett, Dr. James A. Donahue, Suleiman Ghali, Rev. Cannon Charles Gibbs and Rev. Dr. Cecil L. Murray as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Michael Ogul, Chief Deputy Public Defender (Solano) and Denise Graff, Deputy Public Defender (Orange) for California Public Defenders Association and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Donald de Nicola, Deputy State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves and Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorneys General, Stan Cross, Janis S. McLean, David A. Rhodes, Janet E. Neeley and Daniel B. Bernstein, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.