Supreme Court of California

The Court of Appeals' judgment upholding defendant's conviction on two counts of animal cruelty is affirmed, where: 1) defendant cured any error that occurred when the trial court denied his for-cause challenges because he removed those jurors with two peremptory challenges; 2) the trial court was under no statutory obligation to grant defendant extra peremptory challenges to remove additional, otherwise competent, jurors; and 3) because no incompetent juror who should have been dismissed for cause sat on his case as a result of his exhausting his peremptory challenges, defendant is not entitled to reversal of the trial court's judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2014
• Published 03/27/2014

Judges

• CHIN

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel