California Court of Appeal

A conviction and sentence for second degree murder is reversed and remanded for a new trial where the trial judge's act of engaging in private, unrecorded discussions with the jurors while the jury was deliberating was highly improper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/07/2007
• Published 09/07/2007

Judges

• AARON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen M. Lathrop, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Rolling Hills Estates, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Lilia E. Garcia and Peter Quon, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.