Legal Opinion
Madrigal v. California Victim Compensation & Government Claims Board
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 20, 2016No. B265105PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
RUBIN, J.
Rafael Madrigal appeals from the judgment upholding the decision of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (Board) to deny Madrigal compensation for wrongful imprisonment *1111after the Board found that Madrigal had not proven he was factually innocent of attempted murder. We hold that the Board erred when it refused to be bound by the findings in a federal district court’s order granting Madrigal’s habeas corpus petition due to ineffective assistance of counsel. Because it was reasonably probable that consideration of those findings would have caused the…
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