California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for various child sexual abuse crimes and for dissuading a witness from testifying are affirmed over claims of ineffective assistance of counsel for counsel's pretrial performance and for failing to pursue a "taint hearing" to determine the complaining witness's competency and credibility prior to trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/18/2007
• Published 04/18/2007

Judges

• BENKE, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Marc Elliot Grossman, Upland, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Pamela Ratner Sobeck and Ronald A. Jakob, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.