Supreme Court of California

A court of appeal's ruling reversing a conviction for first and second degree murder, which was based on two separate charges arising from the murders of two homeless individuals, is reversed where the court of appeal erred in finding that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to sever the charged offenses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2009
• Published 02/19/2009

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David M. McKinney, Alpine, under appointment by the Supreme court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Pamela Ratner Sobeck, David Delgado-Rucci, Steve Oetting and Raymond M. DiGuiseppe, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.