PEOPLE
v. ALEXANDER
Filed 7/15/10
IN THE SUPREME
COURT OF CALIFORNIA
THE PEOPLE, )
)
Plaintiff
and Respondent, )
) S053228
v. )
)
ANDRE STEPHEN ALEXANDER, )
) Los
Angeles County
Defendant
and Appellant. ) Super. Ct.
No. BA065313-01
__________________________________ )
Story continued from part III…..
Finally, we
address any claim defendant may have raised that his right to counsel under
article I, section 15 of our state Constitution was violated. Defendant cites our decision in
Cal.3d 742 (Barber), in which we
considered, as a matter of California constitutional law, â€
| Description | On June 4, 1980, Julie Cross, an agent of the United States Secret Service, was murdered in the line of duty. Over a decade later, defendant Andre Stephen Alexander was charged with Cross's murder. In 1996, a jury convicted him of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187),[1] and found true allegations that he personally used a firearm and that a principal was armed with a firearm (§§ 12022.5, subd. (a), 12022, subd. (a)). The jury also found true special circumstance allegations that defendant previously had been convicted of murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(2)) and that the murder of Cross had been committed in the course of a robbery (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)). At the penalty phase of the trial, the jury returned a verdict of death. The trial court denied a motion for a new trial and the automatic motion to modify the penalty verdict (§ 190.4, subd. (e)), and it imposed the death sentence. Appeal to this court is automatic. (§ 1239, subd. (b).) Court affirm the judgment. |
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