California Court of Appeal

A judgment sentencing defendant for custodial possession of a manufactured weapon is reversed where the trial court erred when it failed to allow him to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, when he unequivocally expressed his desire to do so, even though his counsel was opposed to entry of that plea.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/12/2008
• Published 03/12/2008

Judges

• FLIER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael John Shultz, Santa Monica, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Robert F. Katz and Robert C. Schneider, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.