The Supreme Court today affirmed the death sentence in People v. Ng for 11 Northern California murders in 1984 and 1985.
The court’s unanimous 178-page opinion by Justice Joshua Groban rejects many defense arguments for reversal, including that the superior court shouldn’t have admitted at trial a jailhouse informant’s earlier testimony during the defendant’s extradition hearing in Canada, that court-appointed standby counsel improperly interfered with the defendant’s ability to represent himself, that the superior court erroneously revoked his self representation, that the trial shouldn’t have been moved to Orange County, and that the defendant was improperly required to wear a stun belt in court.
