based on information from your browser. Try again. 2d 287, 292, fn. 3d 1, it nonetheless appears erroneous in two respects. Please try again later. Defendant raped her, then Norris a second time. Defendant suggested dumping the body in someone's front yard so they could see the reaction in the newspaper. Under these circumstances, we believe the trial court did not err in finding no prima facie showing of group bias. 794, 710 P.2d 861], endorsed the Wiley definition of murder by torture, and relied upon it to cure deficiencies in the instructions on torture-murder special circumstances. The friend notified the authorities, and both monsters were arrested on November 20, 1979. Required fields are marked *. FN 28. Rptr. This opinion was based on reading newspaper accounts of the case. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! Lawfulness of search of impounded van. Juror Staggs had heard something about the case on television and in the newspaper. In Nye, supra, 71 Cal. 3d 143, 149 [177 Cal. [41] Defendant presents a variety of arguments attacking the admissibility of Dr. Markman's testimony, but all boil down to the claim that to the extent the testimony went beyond the 1974 offense it was not proper rebuttal. After the arresting officers had notified the Hermosa Beach police department that they had defendant in custody, the officers were informed that defendant may have been involved in "some 187's [murders] of females, that there was Mace or some other type of chemical agent used in one of the attacks," and that some of the victims may have been photographed. Under these circumstances it is not reasonably possible that the failure of the court to give a reasonable-doubt instruction affected the verdict. After one to two hours, defendant turned off the recorder and changed places with Norris. FN 4. Belief in the truth of the assumption that sentencers treat the power to determine the appropriateness of death as an 'awesome responsibility' has allowed this Court to view sentencer discretion as consistent with the Eighth [Amendment] ." (Pp. There was an error deleting this problem. App. (Greven v. Superior Court (1969) 71 Cal. They eventually seized a number of items, including two pieces of jewelry (crosses with chains), a douche package, a "sap," a book on locating police broadcasting frequencies, a container of Vaseline, and several cassette tapes, including the tape recording the torture of Ledford. App. She turned onto a residential street. Defendant then signed it "Pliers Bittaker," a jail nickname he had acquired from his stories of torturing women with pliers. Defendant contends that the search of Shoopman's cell and seizure of evidence was illegal because the affidavit supporting the warrant contained a reference to the contents of the Ledford tape. However, in North v. Superior Court, supra, 8 Cal. Thus the police seizure of defendant, whether preceded or followed by an announcement of purpose, was justified by the circumstances. He showed the book to a newspaper reporter who wrote an article describing it. (See People v. Harrison (1910) 13 Cal. In the penalty phase, defendant presented testimony from Dr. Maloney, a psychologist, who described defendant's history and personality, and concluded that he had an "antisocial personality disorder." Roy Norris was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder, and sentenced to 45 years to life. The judge said, "The case law that guides this court dictates, and I make the ruling, that only certain questions, specific questions, be asked of the jurors having to do with their attitude in regard to the death penalty. ), As in People v. Dominick (1986) 182 Cal. (46 Cal.3d at p. 3d 1075] pistol, and chemicals. Following defendant's arrest, Officer Valento informed defendant that he was under arrest for robbery, rape, and "288." 3d 1063]. Defendant and Norris followed that car to Redondo Beach, where Hall got out and resumed hitchhiking. A declaration that he will try to be impartial, but doubts that he can succeed, is insufficient. Defendant not only demonstrates, but glories in his readiness to commit murder, rape, and torture. 2d 497, did not address the propriety of the seizure of independent items of evidence during the examination of the instrumentality. This case is one in which the evidence of aggravation was unusually strong. [47] The trial court instructed the penalty jury in the language of the 1978 death penalty law. 2d 818, 836 [299 P.2d 243]. He took a clothes hanger, and looped it around her neck. Some of these photographs came into possession of defense counsel, who turned them over to the police, and they were admitted into evidence. Rptr. 2d 497, to uphold a seizure of the defendant's car, parked outside his apartment, although the defendant had been arrested inside his apartment. The prosecution requested two additional challenges also, to which the court agreed. Since the error is not of constitutional dimension, the appropriate test of prejudice is the "reasonable probability" test set out in People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal. Norris strangled her with a wire coat hanger. 532, 535 [93 P. 99]; People v. Diaz (1951) 105 Cal. Coleman in turn relied on the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Ross v. Oklahoma (1988) 487 U.S. p. 81 [101 L. Ed. Section 1101, subdivision (a), however, prohibits the use of prior specific conduct only "when offered to prove [defendant's] conduct on a specified occasion." 328-329 [86 L.Ed.2d at p. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. I am glad I didnt listen to the actual thing. [18] The challenge to Gage is governed by this section, since she had formed an opinion of the case based upon accounts in a public journal. The tape recording of the torture of Shirley Ledford was discovered in defendant's van. [10] Even if we were to assume that the search and seizure of the Ledford tape was unlawful, the affidavit supporting the warrant authorizing the search of Shoopman's cell contains more than sufficient probable cause. Section 844 provides in relevant part: "To make an arrest a peace officer may break open the door or window of the house in which the person to be arrested is , after having demanded admittance and explained the purpose for which admittance is desired." 3d 1093]. Defendant now renews his claim that the court erred in denying the challenges for cause to five jurors. Shown a picture of Lucinda Schaefer, Dryburgh said she was one of the girls in the photographs he had seen. (Pp. [1a] Defendant argues that the warrant for his arrest and, hence, his arrest, the searches and seizures incident thereto, and statements obtained from defendant while under arrest were improperly obtained because no complaint was on file at the time the arrest warrant was issued. 3d 258, 280.) On this record we conclude that the trial court erred in denying the challenge for cause. Steven Eastman, a visitor at the motel, also heard the tape. One said, "hitch-hikers welcome, females especially"; another said, "Norris did it." Regardless of those circumstances the jury would still have heard evidence that defendant killed Lamp because she had witnessed the crimes he perpetrated on another victim, and that defendant had tortured four of his other victims. After finding several letters from Richard Shoopman to Norris and defendant during the search of Norris's residence, the police became interested in the extent of Shoopman's knowledge of and possession of evidence of the alleged crimes. As we have noted, one of defendant's photographs of Andrea Hall and six of Jacqueline Gilliam were identified and introduced into evidence. First, the judge cannot reserve voir dire for himself and exclude counsel. Defendant and Norris had seen a gangster movie while in prison in which the villain killed his victims in this fashion. He later said it brought him to tears, and caused him to change his stance on capital punishment, from anti to pro. Bittaker and Norris other victims were all, like Lynette, teenage girls: Andrea Hall, 18, Lucinda Schaefer, 16, Jackie Gilliam, 15, and Jacqueline Leah Lamp, 13. So I can't just sit here and tell you." Learning that she was a virgin, he set up a tape recorder to record her cries during the rape. 2d 503, 538-539.) Rptr. Rptr. We characterized the proposed questions as relevant to the felony-murder special circumstances, and held the trial court erred in excluding that area of inquiry. 12 After receiving no response from within the motel room, Officer Valento knocked two more times. (P. Norris and Bittaker were apprehended in November, after Norris told a friend about Lynettes murder, as well as 4 others he and Bittaker had committed in the previous few months; in those they had dumped the victims bodies in remote locations, so they had not yet been found. As we have noted, the agreement called for full and complete testimony. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! The judge also excused several jurors whose responses suggested an automatic vote for a life sentence, without questions to probe whether the juror was really disqualified. We concluded, "[t]his proposition implies a corollary: 'the extent to which [these effects] are minimal will be a function of the extent to which the questioning is minimized.'" (See also People v. Guzman (1988) 45 Cal. 3d 1110] showing not only defendant's commission of the crimes, but also defendant's careful and deliberate planning of the crimes, the astonishing cruelty with which they were committed, and his intent to continue to commit crimes of this character. You can always change this later in your Account settings. In Ketchel (which was tried before Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968) 391 U.S. 510 [20 L. Ed. When he returned, defendant was alone. The first two questions inquired about guilt and special circumstances. And a chance to spread his tales of torture and violence and bloodshed to other adoring prisoners such as the Richard Shoopman type who will some day be paroled to prey on the young girls in our society? The prosecutor properly emphasized such facts to show that defendant deserved the death penalty. Thus, in the case of "mere evidence," probable cause must be examined in terms of cause to believe that the evidence sought will aid in a particular apprehension or conviction. We have, however, cautioned that "where a codefendant has made a judicial confession as to crimes charged, an instruction that as a matter of law such codefendant is an accomplice of other defendants might well be construed by the jurors as imputing the confessing [co]defendant's foregone guilt to the other defendants." People v. Steger (1976) 16 Cal. We do not believe they can be altered by contract so as to limit the court to reviewing the district attorney's discretionary finding as to whether Norris told the truth. 563, 513 P.2d 611].). 3d 301. The tape has never been released to the public. [] If the death penalty isn't proper in this case, when would it ever be proper? (b) Tapes, photographs, and other physical evidence. 6. Rptr. So that I wouldn't be listening wholly to the evidence.". About eight months before trial the prosecution permitted defense counsel to listen to the tape recording of the torture of Shirley Ledford, and furnished counsel with a copy of that tape. 3d 136 [207 Cal. Most of the other items seized were not offered into evidence, and their seizure did not prejudice defendant. FN 17. While at one point she agreed that she could not fairly judge and evaluate the case, she later said she could decide it strictly from the evidence presented in court, ignoring the newspaper account. [50] The ordinary test of prejudice for penalty phase error is described in our recent opinion in People v. Brown (1988) 46 Cal. Therefore, on December 27, Judge Woolpert of the San Luis Obispo Superior Court executed a warrant authorizing the search of Shoopman's cell in the California Men's Colony for letters or photographs sent to Shoopman from defendant or Norris. At trial, confronted with the tape, Bittaker actually had the audacity to claim that it was just a threesome, and pointed out that Lynette had asked them to kill her. We resolved to examine cases tried prior to Brown, such as the present case, "to determine whether, in context, the sentencer may have been misled to defendant's prejudice about the scope of its sentencing discretion under the 1978 law." Defense counsel interpreted that answer as an automatic vote for death; the court interpreted it differently. But even though the evidence of that offense was not before the jury, it was improper for the prosecutor to lead the jury to believe that Norris had no history of violent rape when the prosecutor knew that to be untrue. 3d 301, rejected the defendant's contention that the police must come across the evidence inadvertently, the requirement urged by a minority of the United States Supreme Court in Coolidge v. New Hampshire, supra, 403 U.S. 443. 3d 443, 455-456 [215 Cal. App. There is no evidence that any victim went voluntarily to the place of her death, and only then was restrained against her will. (d) The attempted abduction of Jan Malin. (CALJIC No. In defense of the trial court's ruling, the Attorney General relies on People v. Ketchel (1963) 59 Cal. Defendant told Douglas that he tortured Ledford by pulling on her genitals and breasts with a vise grip. Juror Mims was uncertain whether he could return a death verdict and told the judge, "If you ask me if I could kill somebody, I don't know. By Oct. 31, 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris the so-called Toolbox Killers had already killed four women. fn. After the girls entered the van, Norris hit Lamp with a sap (a plastic bag filled with lead weights), then subdued and tied Gilliam. Rptr. FN 30. The district attorney objected. 18. (Italics added.) The prosecution may not comment upon a defendant's failure to call a witness if the defendant has a privilege to bar disclosure of that witness's testimony. Consequently defendant was not charged with the Robin R. crimes. [17a] This reasoning necessarily implies that an erroneous denial of a challenge for cause can be cured by giving the defendant an additional peremptory challenge. Rptr. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Second, and perhaps more important, the judge did not conduct an adequate voir dire himself. North v. 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