PEOPLE v. FRANK RUDOLPH ESTRADA

Filed 7/14/06

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Yolo)

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THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

FRANK RUDOLPH ESTRADA,

Defendant and Appellant.

C047785

(Super. Ct. No. 030296)

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Yolo County, W. Arvid Johnson, Judge. Affirmed.

William I. Parks, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez and Jamie A. Scheidegger, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

This case poses the question whether it is proper, during voir dire of prospective jurors, for a trial court to inform them that jurors have no legal authority to engage in what is known as â€

Description	During voir dire of prospective jurors in criminal case, it was not error for judge to tell them that jurors have no legal authority to engage in jury nullification and to solicit their assurances that, if chosen to serve, they would follow the law as stated to them by the court and not substitute their own views of what the law should be.
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