California Court of Appeal

Conviction for residential burglary, kidnapping and making criminal threats is affirmed where a request for a new trial based on a defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel does not trigger the court's duty to conduct a Marsden hearing if the defendant's desire for substitute counsel is not made clear.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2009
• Published 02/24/2009

Judges

• SIMS, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorneys General, Julie A. Hokans and Clara M. Levers, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Laura Schaefer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant.