California Court of Appeal

In a conviction of defendant for aggravated sexual assault of a child and related offenses and sentenced under the three strikes law to a term of 230 years to life is reversed and remanded as the trial court erred by failing to inquire into the basis for a new trial motion asserting incompetence of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/13/2010
• Published 04/13/2010

Judges

• BRUINIERS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rodger P. Curnow, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stan Helfman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Mark S. Howell, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.