California Court of Appeal

Defendant presented a timely, specifically-grounded, oral motion for new trial based on juror misconduct, thus failure to hear the motion was error, but such failure does not entitle defendant to a new trial under Penal Code section 1202.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/04/2002
• Published 11/04/2002

Judges

• JONES, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Bruce Ortega, Deputy Attorney General, for plaintiff and respondent., Richard C. Neuhoff, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Francisco, for defendant and appellant.