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PEOPLE v. JACKSON

Docket No. A026594.

187 Cal.App.3d 499 (1986)

231 Cal. Rptr. 889

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BENNIE LEWIS JACKSON, Defendant and Appellant.

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

November 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Harry Gruber and Gruber & Dawson for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, David D. Salmon and John W. Runde, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

KING, J.

In this multi-issue appeal we hold, among other things, that (1) trial counsel was incompetent in failing to move for exclusion of prior felony convictions for impeachment purposes, requiring a limited remand on the issue of prejudice from the incompetence; (2) counsel was arguably incompetent in failing to take steps to facilitate impeachment of a defense witness, but any error was harmless; and (3) the trial court...

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