Supreme Court of California

In a death penalty case, the judgment and sentence are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) admission of photographic evidence; 2) instructional error; 3) allowing the prosecutor to cross-examine defense witnesses about a psychiatric report; 4) limitation of mitigating evidence; 5) a failure to issue a protective order; 6) exclusion of a toxicology report; 7) admission of evidence regarding plea negotiations on Arizona charges; 8) prosecutorial misconduct; 9) instructional error during the penalty phase; 10) juror misconduct; 11) the constitutionality of the death penalty statute; 12) the proportionality of the sentence; and 13) cumulative error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2008
• Published 07/28/2008

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lynn S. Coffin and Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defenders, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Arnold Erickson, 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, Holly D. Wilkens, Holley Hoffman and Annie Featherman Fraser, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.