Pineda

Opinion of the Court by Cantil-Sakauye, C. J.

Defendant Santiago Pineda was convicted in Los Angeles County Superior Court of the murders of Rafael Sanchez (also known, and referred to at trial, as Juan Armenta) and Raul Tinajero. (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a).)1 Special circumstance allegations that the murder of Sanchez occurred during the commission of a robbery (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)), that the murder of Tinajero involved the killing of a witness (id., subd. (a)(10)), and that defendant had been convicted of multiple murders (id., subd. (a)(3)) were found true. At the penalty phase of trial, the jury returned a sentence of death. On appeal, defendant asserts that a juror was improperly excused for cause, evidence was wrongly admitted, and other errors were committed at his trial that, individually and collectively, require reversal of the judgment. We affirm the judgment in its entirety.

I. FACTS

A. Guilt Phase The prosecution’s theory of the case was that defendant, accompanied by Tinajero, killed Sanchez in the early morning hours of March 7, 2002, by running him over with a car. Defendant was charged with Sanchez’s murder. Tinajero then

1 All subsequent undesignated…