People v. Romero
Annotate this CaseDefendants Orlando Gene Romero and Christopher Self were convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, four counts of premeditated attempted murder, and numerous other crimes. The trial court entered judgments of death. The Supreme Court (1) reversed Self’s conviction for the robbery of Albert Knoefler on the basis that the testimony of an accomplice that Self robbed Knoefler was not corroborated; (2) vacated five multiple-murder special-circumstance findings for each defendant, holding that the trial court erred in instructing the jury to make two multiple-murder special-circumstance findings as to each count of murder; and (3) otherwise affirmed the judgments, holding that no other prejudicial error occurred.
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