California Supreme Court
Feb. 9, 2012
High Court weighs whether gag order on lawyer was harmless error
The state Supreme Court Tuesday seemed ready to apply a harmless-error test to a judge's gag order that prevented a defense lawyer from talking to his client about a key witness statement in an attempted murder case.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed ready to apply a harmless-error test to a judge's gag order that prevented a defense lawyer from talking to his client about a key witness statement in an attempted murder case.
Defense lawyer Marc J. Zilversmit pleaded with the justices not to "jump off a cliff and say this is not structural error." The U.S. Supreme Court has held that blanket co...
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