PEOPLE v. CORTEZ

Docket No. 8495.

13 Cal.App.3d 317 (1970)

91 Cal. Rptr. 660

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ADONAI BARAHONA CORTEZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

December 7, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ronald Ruiz for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Robert R. Granucci and Gary Garfinkle, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

SIMS, J.

Defendant has appealed from the denial of his motion to vacate a judgment under which he was convicted and sentenced for burglary in the second degree following his plea of guilty, and from the denial of his motion to vacate that plea. He contends that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel because his attorney, in recommending the guilty plea, failed to consider the defense of diminished capacity. It is...

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