California Court of Appeal

Conviction of felony income tax evasion is reversed where the jury was not instructed that it had to find the existence of a tax deficiency as an element of the offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/27/2006
• Published 04/27/2006

Judges

• RUBIN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen M. Lathrop, Torrance, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Robert F. Katz and Roy C. Preminger, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.