PEOPLE v. SOUKOMLANE

No. F052781.

75 Cal.Rptr.3d 496 (2008)

162 Cal.App.4th 214

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Thavone SOUKOMLANE, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, Fifth District.

April 23, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Marshall, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Palo Alto, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Lloyd G. Carter, Louis M. Vasquez, and Amanda D. Cary, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GOMES, J.

Appellant Thavone Soukomlane appeals from his conviction of willful infliction of corporal injury on a spouse and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia after a jury trial at which he represented himself. He argues that the trial court's ordering him shackled without taking precautions to keep the jury from hearing and seeing his shackles constituted an abuse of discretion requiring reversal of the judgment. Additionally, he argues...

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