California v Singh
Annotate this CaseA jury found defendant Charandeep Singh guilty of felony vandalism, making criminal threats, and assault with a deadly weapon (a baseball bat). It was unable to reach a verdict with respect to counts alleging assault with a gun and brandishing a gun. The trial court sentenced defendant to state prison for four years eight months. Defendant's appeal centered on the prosecution's successful motion contesting the exercise of defense counsel's peremptory challenges as being premised on invidious group bias against Caucasian potential jurors. Defendant does not challenge the nature of the remedy that the trial court imposed (reseating the potential juror who had been the subject of the most recent defense peremptory challenge). Rather, defendant argued that the trial court erred in granting the prosecution's motion, and further that this erroneous grant of the motion (coupled with a threat to impose sanctions against defense counsel for any further improper peremptory challenges) chilled his trial counsel's representation during the rest of voir dire and accordingly resulted in an unfair trial. Finding no error, the Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court.
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