Supreme Court of California

In a death penalty case, the conviction and sentence is affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) jury selection; 2) denial of severance; 3) ex parte in camera meetings; 4) admission of evidence regarding a bankruptcy consultation; 5) a pathologist's testimony; 6) provocation and lesser included offense instructions; 7) the sufficiency of the evidence of financial gain; 8) Skipper/Lockett error; 9) lingering doubt evidence; 10) prosecutorial misconduct; 11) the effect of the ex parte in camera meetings on a modification motion; and 12) the validity of the death penalty law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2008
• Published 08/25/2008

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Eric S. Multhaup, Mill Vallley, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey and Ana R. Duarte, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.