California Court of Appeal

Defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to have his murder convictions set aside is granted where the deficient performance trial counsel rendered in conducting his pretrial investigation necessarily was prejudicial to defendant and thus requires a new trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/28/2005
• Published 12/28/2005

Judges

• SPENCER, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Latham & Watkins, Robert A. Long, Marcus A. McDaniel, Los Angeles, T. Ian Graham;  and Susan E. Nash for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mary Sanchez and David A. Voet, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.