California Court of Appeal

Conviction for robbery, carjacking, burglary, assualt with a firearm is reversed where defendant met his appellate burden of showing that his right to due process was violated by the court's conducting a portion of the jury selection off the record, outside the presence of the prospective jurors, and outside his presence without his waiver, whether express or implied, oral or written, personal or by counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2007
• Published 07/02/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jerome P. Wallingford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez and Lewis A. Martinez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.