California Court of Appeal

Convictions relating to securities reversed and new trial ordered where cumulative effects of trial court's forcing defendant to testify out of order, and refusal to allow him to testify after prosecutor was allowed to reopen rebuttal, resulted in denial of due process right to fair trial; acquittal improper based on sufficiency of evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/15/2002
• Published 04/16/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Mark Raymond McDonald, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Carl H. Horst and Jeffrey J. Koch, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.