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 IV…..
2. Admission
of Blood Tests Conducted on the Jacket
Defendant contends the testimony
regarding the presumptive blood tests conducted on the seized jacket should not
have been admitted because the evidence was irrelevant and unduly prejudicial
under sections 350 and 352 of the Evidence Code, respectively, and because its
admission violated his federal constitutional right to a reliable determination
of guilt.
Relevant evidence is evidence
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| 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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