California Court of Appeal

Convictions on two counts related to committing a lewd and lascivious act on a person who was 15 years old with the intent of "arousing, appealing to and gratifying" defendant's "lust passions, and sexual desires" is reversed where the jury was erroneously permitted to convict based on charges not established at the preliminary hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2009
• Published 01/20/2009

Judges

• MANELLA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Law Offices of Mark J. Werksman, Mark J. Werksman and Kelly C. Quinn, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Scott A. Taryle and Allison H. Chung, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.