PEOPLE v. CHATMAN

No. S032509.

42 Cal.Rptr.3d 621 (2006)

38 Cal.4th 344

133 P.3d 534

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Erik Sanford CHATMAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

May 8, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Goldrosen, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias and Jeremy Friedlander, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


CORRIGAN, J.

A jury convicted Erik Sanford Chatman of first degree murder under the special circumstance of torture murder and with use of a knife.1 The jury acquitted him of robbery and rejected a related robbery-murder special-circumstance allegation.2 It did find defendant guilty of the lesser offense of grand theft. After the jury returned a death verdict, the court denied defendant's motion to modify the...

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