Legal Opinion
People v. Powell
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 29, 2011No. H034349PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
DUFFY, J.
A jury convicted defendant Darían Manuel Powell of raping his young daughter and exposing her to obscene pornographic movies. On appeal, he claims that the trial court improperly refused to let him represent himself at trial, incorrectly ruled that his daughter could testify against him via closed-circuit television, and made mistakes in deciding the length of his sentence. He also claims that the evidence the jury received was too weak to allow it to convict him of exposing his daughter to the pornographic movies.
We find no reason to reverse the judgment and will affirm it.
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2Cases cited38 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by22 opinions
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