People v. Mendez
California Court of Appeal
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1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GOMES, J.
A jury found appellants Robert Mendez and Anthony Perez guilty of battery with infliction of serious bodily injury on a fellow inmate at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran. (Pen. Code, § 243, subd. (d).) The trial court found true the allegations that Mendez had five strike priors and that Perez had two, declined to strike any of them, and sentenced each to a 25-year-to-life term in state prison.
On appeal, Mendez argues that the trial court’s failure to hold a hearing on the grievance in his new trial motion about the competence of his trial attorney…
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