Legal Opinion
People v. Tabb
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 27, 1991No. D012867PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HUFFMAN, Acting P. J.
Kirk Migdal, a deputy public defender who was attorney of record for defendant Mark Outler Tabb in a felony matter, was sanctioned $75 by the municipal court pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 177.5 1 when he failed to timely appear at Tabb’s scheduled preliminary hearing. In an appeal to the appellate department of the superi- or court, Migdal challenged the applicability of section 177.5 to any criminal proceeding and alternatively contended that, even if the section applied, he was not in violation of it because he was inadvertently, not willfully,…
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