Moore

Defendant Charles Edward Moore twice has been convicted and sentenced to death for robbing and murdering Robert and Marie Crumb in Long Beach, California in 1977. We affirmed his first conviction and sentence in 1988 (People v. Moore (1988) 47 Cal.3d 63 [ 252 Cal.Rptr. 494 , 762 P.2d 1218 ] (Moore)), but that judgment was vacated in federal habeas corpus proceedings, when the federal court concluded defendant’s right to represent himself at trial had been violated. (Moore v. Calderon (9th Cir. 1997) 108 F.3d 261 .) After a second trial in 1998, the jury again convicted defendant of two counts of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187), two counts of robbery (§ 211), and one count of burglary (§ 459). It found true sentencing enhancements as to each count that defendant personally used a deadly and dangerous weapon, a knife (§ 12202, subd. (b)), except with regard to the murder of Marie Crumb. It also found true sentencing enhancements as to each robbery count that defendant personally used a firearm (§ 12022.5). The jury found true the special circumstances that, as to each murder, defendant committed the murder in the course of robbing the victims (former § 190.2, subd.…