Supreme Court of California

Defendant's conviction for assault with intent to commit rape and related crimes is affirmed where the stationing of a courtroom deputy next to a testifying defendant is not an inherently prejudicial practice that must be justified by a showing of manifest need.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2009
• Published 11/05/2009

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Alan Charles Dell'Ario, Oakland, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Rene A. Chacon, Stan Helfman, Laurence K. Sullivan and Arthur P. Beever, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.