California Court of Appeal

Defender's appeal from judgment entered following his negotiated guilty plea to possessing methamphetamine and related offenses is dismissed as the notice of appeal was not timely filed and defendant's constructive filing claim under Benoit is rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/06/2009
• Published 11/06/2009

Judges

• YEGAN, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• California Appellate Project, Los Angeles, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Jonathan B. Steiner, Executive Director and Richard B. Lennon, Staff Attorney, 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, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, E. Carlos Dominguez, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.