California Court of Appeal

An order finding defendants-nurses factually innocent of felony charges of dependent adult abuse likely to produce great bodily harm or death and directing destruction of their records is reversed as, notwithstanding their acquittals, the evidence provided reasonable cause to believe that respondents committed the offense of which they were charged.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/29/2009
• Published 10/29/2009

Judges

• COFFEE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Wasserman, Comden & Casselman, L.L.P., Mark S. Gottlieb, Leonard J. Comden, Tarzana, and Louis Samonsky, Jr., Ventura, for Defendants and Respondents., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Theresa A. Patterson, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.