California Court of Appeal

Conviction for animal cruelty and sentence of three years in state prison is affirmed over claims of insufficiency of evidence, erroneous instructions on proximate cause, erroneous admission of a prior dog killing, and ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/22/2003
• Published 07/22/2003

Judges

• PREMO, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Arthur Dudley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, by Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Bruce Ortega, and David M. Baskind, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff/Respondent.