California Court of Appeal

Order recusing the entire district attorney's office was not an abuse of discretion where nothing could diminish the "likelihood of unfairness" to the defendants if another member of a relatively small district attorney-s office were to argue to a jury the credibility of two colleagues who witnessed the charged crimes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2006
• Published 06/20/2006

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Charles A. French and Angelo S. Edralin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard S. Doctoroff, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent Alan Dale Jenan., John Patrick Moore, Fresno, for Defendant and Respondent Roger Lewis Jenan.