Supreme Court of California

Conviction of defendant for first degree murder of his five-year-old son, jury's finding true the special circumstance that the murder was intentional and involved the infliction of torture, and a sentence of death are affirmed in its entirety on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) sufficiency of the evidence; 2) admission of out-of-court statements; 3) alleged instructional errors; 4) jury's mid-deliberation question regarding torture; 5) intracase proportionality review; 6) challenges to California's death penalty scheme; and 7) asserted substantial cumulative effect of errors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2010
• Published 08/12/2010

Judges

• GEORGE, C. J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory Marshall, Bill Lockyer