California Court of Appeal

People's request to extend the appellate disentitlement doctrine (applicable to fugitives) to a criminal defendant who had been deported from the country by the ICE is denied as, absent additional circumstances not presented here, a defendant who has been deported does not stand in the same shoes as one who has voluntarily placed himself beyond the court's control.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2010
• Published 03/08/2010

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan D. Soglin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Catherine A. Rivlin, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Karen Z. Bovarnick and Jason Sjoberg, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.