California Supreme Court

People v. Ghobrial

August 9, 2018

Summary

The court modified its prior opinion to clarify that the prosecutor's references to Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the September 11 terrorists were not intended to compare defendant's crimes to those attacks or attribute culpability based on racial or national background. The court concluded that the references illustrated general points about mental illness and criminal liability, found no prosecutorial misconduct, left the judgment unchanged, and denied rehearing.