Supreme Court of California

Defendant's conviction and death sentence for first degree murder, robbery and kidnapping, is affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error including: 1) trial court's denial of defendant's motion for a mistrial; 2) asserted Doyle error; 3) prosecutorial misconduct; 4) sufficiency of the evidence of unadjudicated criminal activity; 5) jury instructions; and 6) cumulative error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2010
• Published 05/27/2010

Judges

• CORRIGAN, 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 Kent Barkhurst, Deputy Sate Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Sharlene A. Honnaka and Theresa A. Patterson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.