Supreme Court of California

Conviction and sentencing of defendant for first-degree murder with the special circumstances of a murder committed while engaged in the commission of a lewd and lascivious act on a child under the age of 14, Pen. Code, sections 187, 190.2(a)(17), are upheld where: 1) trial court's evidentiary errors were individually and cumulatively harmless; 2) the lewd-and-lascivious-act special circumstance statute is constitutional; and 3) defendant's challenges to California's death penalty law and standard jury instructions are without merits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/07/2011
• Published 07/07/2011

Judges

• CHIN

Court

• Supreme Court of California

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