California Court of Appeal

Government Code section 27706 prevents a trial court in a criminal case from appointing a county public defender for pure stand-by counsel duties where no assistance to pro se defendant is envisioned.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/18/2001
• Published 01/18/2001

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Charles P. Dreiling, Public Defender, and Garrick Byers, Deputy Public Defender, for Petitioner., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Kelly E. Lebel, Deputy Attorney General, and Keith David Goodwin, in pro. per., for Real Parties in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip S. Cronin, County Counsel, and J. Wesley Merritt, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.