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PEOPLE v. PULUC-SIQUE

No. A123451.

182 Cal.App.4th 894 (2010)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ELVER BERNARDINO PULUC-SIQUE, Defendant and Appellant.

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

March 8, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan D. Soglin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Catherine A. Rivlin, Karen Z. Bovarnick and Jason Sjoberg, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

NEEDHAM, J.—

An appellate court possesses the inherent power to dismiss the appeal of a criminal defendant who is a fugitive from justice. In this case, the People ask us to extend the appellate disentitlement doctrine to a defendant who has been deported from this country by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We conclude that absent additional circumstances not presented here, a defendant who has been deported...

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