California Courts of Appeal
Apr. 21, 2015
Panel reverses murder conviction, cites judicial misconduct
An appellate panel found Riverside County Superior Court Judge W. Charles Morgan to have bolstered the prosecution and belittled the defense before the jury.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A state appellate court has reversed a mother's 50 year-to-life sentence for second-degree murder in the death of her newborn after finding that the trial court judge improperly withheld evidence, disparaged the defense's expert witness and bolstered the prosecution in the jury's presence.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge W. Charles Morgan, "through his comments, conveyed t...
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