Supreme Court of California

Defendant's conviction for first degree murder and other crimes, and sentence of death are affirmed on automatic appeal over various challenges including: 1) trial court's exclusion of a note written by defendant; 2) Miranda violation; 3) trial court's various jury instructions; 4) sufficiency of evidence for prior-murder special circumstance; 5) admission of handgun possession evidence under Penal Code section 190.3(b); 6) penalty phase prejudice from failure to suppress defendant's statements; 7) challenges to the death penalty law; and 9) cumulative effect of penalty phase errors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/21/2010
• Published 10/21/2010

Judges

• KENNARD

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark D. Greenberg, Edmund G. Brown, Jr