Supreme Court unanimously affirms two death penalty judgments

A unanimous Supreme Court today affirms the death sentences of two brothers tried together before separate juries.  In People v. Romero and Self, the court does reverse one robbery conviction of one defendant and vacates several multiple-murder special circumstance findings for both defendants, but there is more than enough left to uphold the death sentences that emanated from what the court calls “a two-month crime spree.”  It also disapproves parts of two of its own recent (2013 and 2014) decisions.  The court’s opinion is written by Justice Kathryn Werdegar.