People v. Scheid

*5Opinion

GEORGE, C. J.

In 1994, defendant Nanette Scheid was convicted of one count of first degree murder, two counts of robbery, and one count of burglary. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 211, 459.)1 A divided Court of Appeal reversed the convictions, concluding that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a single photograph of the murder scene, and that the erroneous admission of this photograph was sufficiently prejudicial to require reversal.

As we shall explain, we conclude the Court of Appeal erred in finding the admission of the photograph to have been improper, and further conclude that,…