California Court of Appeal

Mentally ill taxi driver's multiple convictions for assault and attempted murder are affirmed. The jury was properly instructed that if defendant's mental disease was due primarily (but not entirely) to intoxication, then the applicability of his insanity defense was a question of fact for them to resolve.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/09/2009
• Published 01/09/2009

Judges

• NEEDHAM, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stan Helfman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Sharon G. Birenbaum, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender and Craig Buckser, Deputy State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.