California Court of Appeal

Conviction for battery with infliction of serious bodily injury on a fellow inmate at a substance abuse treatment facility is reversed and remanded in part where the trial court's failure to hold a Marsden hearing precluded appellate review of whether defendant had a meritorious claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/11/2008
• Published 04/11/2008

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey S. Kross, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Oakland, for Defendant and Appellant Robert Mendez., Richard Power, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Anthony Perez., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez and Catherine G. Tennant, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.