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Willis Franklin v. California
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, No. A165893 · judgment March 13, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice when the trial court failed to continue the trial during the absence of one of petitioner’s co-counsel? Was petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to “client autonomy” under McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414, 138 S. Ct. 1500, 200 L. Ed. 2d 82 (2018), in not being advised that he had the final say in whether or not to testify even if this was against the advice of his attorneys? LIST OF ALL PARTIES Petitioner WILLIS FRANKLIN. Respondent PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Paul Gilruth McCarthy
Law Offices of Beles & Beles
For respondent
Julia Yeang-Ha Je
California Attorney General's Office
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 07 2024Petition DENIED.
- Sep 11 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
- Sep 03 2024Waiver of right of respondent California to respond filed.
- Aug 23 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 26, 2024)