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California Appeal Reverses Sex Offense Conviction

By Walin & Klarich

Often a defendant is accused in one criminal complaint of many different crimes. A very powerful weapon in many cases is for your experienced California criminal defense attorney to bring a motion to sever the cases so you can receive separate trials. Jurors often will tend to want to convict a defendant just because of the number of criminal charges. Also in many cases, the prosecutor will attempt to have a jury find a defendant guilty of one crime (with weak evidence) due to the jury hearing about another alleged crime where the evidence against the defendant is stronger. In a recent case, an accused was charged with indecent exposure in one count, and in a totally separate incident was charged with sexual assault as a felony. The defense lawyer filed a motion to sever the trials to prevent the same jury from hearing both cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).