Supreme Court of California

On an automatic appeal of defendant's first and second degree murder of multiple prostitutes and a sentence of death, trial court's judgment is affirmed over challenges to: 1) sufficiency of evidence of premeditation and deliberation to support the first degree murder convictions; 2) admission of defendant's post-arrest statement; 3) the guilt phase instructions; 4) asserted prosecutorial misconduct; and 5) penalty phase issues.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/15/2010
• Published 07/15/2010

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce Eric Cohen, Bill Lockyer