Appeals
On August 7, 2006 his first round of state appeals ended unsuccessfully when the California Supreme Court upheld his convictions and death sentence. On September 7, 2006, the California Supreme Court denied his request for a rehearing.
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“No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
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