California Court of Appeal

Conviction for willful infliction of corporal injury on a spouse and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia is reversed and remanded where the trial court: 1) ordered defendant shackled without taking precautions to keep the jury from hearing and seeing his shackles; and 2) removed defendant to a back room where he could not hear part of the prosecutor's examination of a key witness against him, which constituted a reversible denial of his constitutional right to counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/23/2008
• Published 04/23/2008

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory Marshall, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Palo Alto, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Lloyd G. Carter, Louis M. Vasquez, and Amanda D. Cary, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.