Supreme Court of California

Conviction of defendants for first degree murder, robbery, attempted rape, and theft of an automobile and sentence to death, are affirmed in its entirety on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) court's failure to set aside burglary charges and burglary special circumstance allegations; 2) failure of the information to charge first degree felony murder; 3) denial of motions to sever defendants' trials at the guilt and penalty phases; 4) use of leg brace restraints during jury voir dire; 5) erroneous evidentiary rulings; 6) the sufficiency of the evidence; 7) prosecutorial misconduct; 8) instructional error; 9) sufficiency of the appellate record; 10) improper cross-examination of one of the defendants regarding letters he wrote concerning the crimes; 11) erroneous admission of unadjudicated prior offenses; 12) the constitutionality of California's death penalty statute; and 13) the cumulative effect of the asserted errors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2010
• Published 07/29/2010

Judges

• GEORGE, C. J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Thomas Bowden, Daniel E. Lungren