California Court of Appeal

PEOPLE v. CALLAHAN, B167543

The trial court's grant of defendant's motion for a new trial, on the ground that her trial attorney had provided constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel, is affirmed where the trial court's determinations of error and prejudice were not an abuse of discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/18/2004
• Published 11/18/2004

Judges

• PERREN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Snider, Michael A. Katz, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kay Duffy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.