The People, Plaintiff and Respondent v. Jonathan Keith Jackson, Defen — Liu, J., Concurring in Part and Dissenting…

Summary

Justice Liu concurred in the judgment upholding the guilt-phase result but dissented from affirming the death judgment. She reasoned that requiring defendant to wear an unjustified stun belt was constitutional error and that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not affect the penalty-retrial verdict, particularly because the belt could alter defendant's demeanor and the first penalty jury had deadlocked. She would have reversed the death judgment while joining the court's opinion in all other respects.