PEOPLE v. HOWARD

No. S029489.

71 Cal.Rptr.3d 264 (2008)

42 Cal.4th 1000

175 P.3d 264

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Alphonso HOWARD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

February 4, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynne S. Coffin, State Public Defender, Andrew S. Love and Alison Pease, Deputy State Public Defenders; and David S. Adams, Hood River, OR, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney Generals, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Sharlene A. Honnaka and David E. Madeo, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


CORRIGAN, J.

Defendant Alphonso Howard was sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of first degree murder, rape, and a forcible lewd act upon a child under the age of 14. The jury found that he personally used a firearm during the offenses,1 and that he caused bodily injury to the child while committing the lewd act.2 The special circumstances supporting the imposition of the death penalty were that the...

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