Appellate Court Reverses Conviction for Prosecutor’s Misstatements to the Jury

Last week the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District reversed and remanded a case for retrial after a prosecutor prejudicially misstated the evidentiary standard of “reasonable doubt” in a criminal trial. Christopher James Lloyd was found guilty by a jury for assault with a deadly weapon in violation of P.C. § 245(a)(1) and […]