California Court of Appeal

Conviction for assault is reversed where the trial court abused its discretion by denying the motion for separate trials and permitting the prosecution to place the strongly incriminating evidence of the misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure before the same jury deciding the much more difficult felony assault charge, which resulted in such gross unfairness as to deprive defendant of a fair trial and due process of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2009
• Published 03/19/2009

Judges

• RUSHING, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Fred Schnider, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Appellant, for Defendant and Appellant, Cameron Earle., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Joan Killeen, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent, The People.