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Juvenile Attempted Child Molestation

By Walin & Klarich

Juvenile Defendant Wins New Trial in Child Molest Case Based Upon Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Failure to Properly Investigate the Facts of Case Recently the court of appeals has reversed the conviction of a juvenile who was accused of attempted child molestation after the juvenile was found guilty by a judge of committing the alleged offense. The court of appeals found that the juvenile had received deficient legal representation by the public defenders office for his juvenile crime. The juvenile had requested the public defender to investigate his claimed defense to the charge. The public defender believing that the judge would not provide funding to hire an investigator failed to ask for a continuance of the trial and failed to request the judge to appoint experts that would be necessary to adequately defend his client...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).