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 I…..
Defendant was bound over to superior court
and, on August 2, 1993,
he was arraigned before Judge Ito. Kopple appeared with defendant but did not mention that she
had been appointed as counsel in
municipal court. Judge Ito assigned the
matter to Judge Horan for trial. Later
that morning, when Judge Horan questioned her status as appointed counsel, Kopple said she had been appointed in municipal court and
assumed her appointment would continue.
Judge Horan returned the matter to Judge Ito to clarify Kopple's status because she was 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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