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People v. Abbaszadeh

California Court of Appeal

Decided February 25, 2003No. C036850PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

MORRISON, J.

In People v. Mello (2002) 97 Cal.App.4th 511 [118 Cal.Rptr.2d 523] (Mello) we reversed a criminal conviction because Placer County Superior Court Judge Joe O’Flaherty instructed prospective jurors to lie about racial prejudice and make up reasons to avoid jury service. This structural error rendered the trial fundamentally unfair, requiring reversal without a showing of prejudice.

In Mello we assumed this “astonishing” error was a “well-intentioned but misguided” incident. (Mello, supra, 97 Cal.App.4th at pp. 516, 518.) It now appears Judge O’Flaherty has a practice of…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. People v. HillCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1998
  3. People v. WilliamsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1998
  4. People v. HoltCalifornia Supreme Court · 1997
  5. People v. SmitheyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1999

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. People v. YarbroughCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2008
  2. Mundy v. LencCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2012
  3. Mark G. v. John G.California Court of Appeal · 2011
  4. People v. PerkinsCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2003
  5. People v. ArmijoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2017

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