Bloom

Opinion of the Court by Kruger, J.

After a federal court vacated his earlier conviction and sentence, defendant Robert Maurice Bloom was retried and convicted of the first degree murder of his father and the second degree murders of his stepmother and stepsister. The jury on retrial also found true a multiple-murder special-circumstance finding and various firearm- and weapon-use findings. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 190.2, subd. (a)(3), 1203.06, subd. (a)(1), 12022, subd. (b), 12022.5, subd. (a).) Bloom was sentenced to death. This appeal is automatic. (Id., § 1239, subd. (b).) We now affirm the judgment in part and reverse in part. At trial, defense counsel conceded Bloom’s responsibility for the deaths of all three victims in an effort to pursue a mental capacity defense to the murder charges. Bloom, however, was willing to accept responsibility only for the killing of his father and expressly objected to admitting responsibility for the deaths of the other two victims. In conceding responsibility for these victims against Bloom’s wishes, defense counsel violated Bloom’s Sixth Amendment right to choose the fundamental objectives of his defense under McCoy v. Louisiana…