People v. Garner

Opinion

GATES, J.

Defendant Roderick Garner appeals from the judgment entered following a jury trial that resulted in his conviction of second degree murder, He makes numerous contentions whose merit, or lack thereof, need not detain us since this proceeding was so fundamentally flawed from its inception that its result cannot possibly be sustained.

The prosecution’s entire case-in-chief consisted solely of (1) an autopsy report indicating that a Phillip Matthews had died “as a consequence of multiple gunshot wounds,” and (2) a reading into the record of the testimony given by the one and only…