PEOPLE v. BURNETT

No. H023393.

2 Cal.Rptr.3d 120 (2003)

110 Cal.App.4th 868

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Andrew Douglas BURNETT, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

Rehearing Denied August 19, 2003.

Review Denied October 1, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Dudley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, by Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Bruce Ortega, and David M. Baskind, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff/Respondent.


PREMO, J.

Incensed that the driver behind him tapped his car with her bumper, defendant Andrew Douglas Burnett, snatched her little white dog Leo out of her car and threw him onto a crowded roadway where he was run over by a minivan and killed. Defendant was convicted of animal cruelty and received three years in state prison. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, the instructions, and the competence of counsel.

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