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PEOPLE v. BARTON

Docket No. Crim. 19740.

21 Cal.3d 513 (1978)

579 P.2d 1043

146 Cal. Rptr. 727

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILFORD WAYNE BARTON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 14, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Paul N. Halvonik, State Public Defender, Clifton R. Jeffers, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Ezra Hendon, Deputy State Public Defender, and Michael R. O'Neil, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

John J. Cleary as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Assistant Attorney General, Karl J. Phaler, A. Wells Petersen and Robert M. Foster, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

Appellant, Wilford Wayne Barton, contends that he was deprived of his right under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution to the competent assistance of counsel on appeal, in that the attorney appointed to represent him in the Court of Appeal failed to present an adequate appellate record from which that court could reach the merits of his search and...

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