California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for committing a lewd act upon a child is reversed for retrial because of willful misconduct on the witness stand by a police officer who, in front of the jury, intentionally violated a court order suppressing a statement by defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2010
• Published 02/01/2010

Judges

• RUBIN, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael M. Crain, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Gary A. Lieberman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.