California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for first degree murder with special-circumstances is reversed as to one defendant where the disqualification and removal of defendant's court-appointed counsel was an abuse of the trial court's discretion and violated defendant's right to counsel under the state Constitution, and the error is reversible per se.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/16/2008
• Published 01/16/2008

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark L. Christiansen, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Daniel Loreto Noriega., Steven Schorr, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant Manuel Ortega Paredes., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Steve Oetting, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Lise S. Jacobson, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.