Supreme Court of California

In death penalty case, defendant failed to show presumption that second counsel was required, and his counsel's unanticipated illness during trial did not merit appointment of second counsel, where a continuance was granted during counsel's illness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2000
• Published 11/09/2000

Judges

•  MOSK, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Jonathan P. Milberg, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Pasadena, for Defendant and Appellant., Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson and David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson, Robert S. Henry, Susan Lee Frierson and Scott A. Taryle, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.