People v. Souza
54 Cal.4th 90 (Cal. 2012) Cited 525 times
Modifying victim/witness restitution amounts to correct ex post facto and other errors
People v. Thomas
53 Cal.4th 771 (Cal. 2012) Cited 527 times
Finding “no significant risk of an unjustified conviction on any of the murder charges because ... evidence in both cases was strong”
People v. Duff
58 Cal.4th 527 (Cal. 2014) Cited 421 times
Holding that the use of the adjectives "extreme" and "substantial" in section 190.3, subdivisions (d) and (g) is constitutional; the trial court need not identify mitigating factors as such; and reliance on unadjudicated criminal activity at the penalty phase is constitutional
People v. Montes
58 Cal.4th 809 (Cal. 2014) Cited 110 times
Denying claim that special circumstance finding must be reversed for being necessarily included within another special circumstance