California Court of Appeal

In a prosecution for corporal injury to a cohabitant, in which the defendant pled guilty and then claimed that her trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to discover prior to the entry of her plea that the victim had attempted to recant his statement to the police, the conviction is affirmed, where the defendant's motion to withdraw the plea was properly denied because: 1) the defendant did not show that she entered her guilty plea under mistake, ignorance, or any other factor overcoming her exercise of free judgment; and 2) counsel did not act unreasonably, and regardless the defendant suffered no prejudice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/16/2012
• Published 05/16/2012

Judges

• Sepulveda

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William D. Farber, Julia Y. Je