California Court of Appeal

In case where police officer disrespected both his badge and the women he sexually abused while on duty, conviction and sentence for sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, and attempting to dissuade a witness is affirmed, with modification, over claims that: 1) the trial court erred in allowing introduction of evidence of uncharged sexual assaults committed by defendant; and 2) defendant could not be convicted of assault by a public officer because one victim touched defendant at his direction, as opposed to him having touched her.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2007
• Published 03/27/2007

Judges

• SCOTLAND, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jan Scully, District Attorney (Sacramento) and Michael A. Neves, Deputy District Attorney (Sacramento) as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles M. Bonneau for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John G. McLean and Melissa Lipon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.