Supreme Court of California

In an automatic appeal in a death penalty case, the conviction and sentence are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) admission of evidence of a jailhouse informant's testimony; 2) admission of evidence of defendant's crimes against another victim; 3) admission of statements made to the other victim; 4) admission of certain company log sheets; 5) the sufficiency of the evidence; 6) jury instructions during the guilt and penalty phases; 7) defendant's jury waiver for a penalty phase retrial; 8) whether the death penalty violates international law; 9) constitutional challenges to the death penalty; and 10) cumulative error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2008
• Published 08/11/2008

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lynne S. Coffin and Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defenders, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Denise Kendall, Assistant State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias and David H. Rose, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.