Supreme Court of California

On automatic appeal of a death sentence for murder, the judgment is affirmed against claims of: 1) evidentiary error: 2) error in jury instructions; 3) insufficient evidence to support the true findings that the crimes were committed on behalf of a criminal street gang, and that the murders were committed under the special circumstance of lying in wait; 4) invalidity of the lying-in-wait special circumstance; 5) improper admission of evidence of unadjudicated criminal activity; 6) cumulative prejudice from errors; and 7) unconstitutionality of the death penalty and its violation of international law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2012
• Published 04/26/2012

Judges

• Chin

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Wayne Gehring, Daniel C. Chang