Supreme Court of California

In an automatic appeal in a death penalty case, the conviction is affirmed but the penalty judgment is reversed based on the erroneous excusal, during the penalty phase deliberations, of the sole juror holding out for a life sentence.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick Morgan Ford, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Diego, 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, William M. Wood and Alana Cohen Butler, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.