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 V…..
7. Exclusion
of Testimony of Jacqueline Sherow
Defendant contends the trial court
abused its discretion by excluding the testimony of Jacqueline Sherow (see People v.
Lawley (2002) 27 Cal.4th 102, 153), and thereby
violated his federal due process rights.
It appears that, in a report of his
1992 interview with Sherow, Detective Henry stated
that she told him she had a conversation with Charles Brock some time after the
Cross murder in which Charles said, 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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