THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
LAWRENCE CHARLES PEARSON, Defendant and Appellant.
Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 30, 2008.
July 30, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gary C. Crooks, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Michael A. Katz, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.
OPINION
YEGAN, Acting P. J.
(1) "No one can take advantage of his own wrong." (Civ. Code, § 3517.) This equitable maxim surely applies where a party intentionally interferes with the truth-seeking function of the court. Here defendant concealed the victim-witness and obtained a partial acquittal. When he produced the same victim-witness for his own purposes on other counts, the trial court vacated the partial acquittal. In these circumstances...
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