Thursday, October 12, 2006

Ineffective assistance of counsel

In re Hernandez (09/27/06 - No. G035909).
Habeas petition challenging conviction of first degree murder, kidnapping, hit-and-run driving causing death, and making a fraudulent insurance claim, finding of sanity by jury, and 25-year-to-life sentence, is granted as to the issue of petitioner's sanity where trial counsel committed prejudicial error by failing to object to the testimony of the prosecution’s expert witnesses at the sanity trial. http://login.findlaw.com/scripts/callaw?dest=ca/caapp4th/slip/2006/g035909.htmlhttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/californiastatecases/g035909.pdf

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