Supreme Court of California

In a death penalty case, conviction and sentence are affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) evidence admitted at trial regarding prior uncharged crimes; 2) sufficiency of the evidence of first degree felony murder and the robbery special circumstance; 3) a jury instruction on evidence of other crimes; 4) sufficiency of evidence of the hate-murder special circumstance; 5) prejudice caused by expert evidence regarding white supremacy; 6) the constitutionality of jury instructions on the death penalty; 7) the court's failure to clarify the meaning of "life without the possibility of parole"; 8) the constitutionality of the death penalty statute; and 9) cumulative error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2008
• Published 08/28/2008

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Ronald F. Turner, 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, Rhonda L. Cartwirght-Ladendorf and Adrianne S. Denault, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.