California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Baines, B279941 (Cal. App. 2017):
Defendant's appointed appellate counsel filed a brief pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende) requesting we independently review the entire record to determine if there are any arguable issues on appeal. We notified defendant he could independently brief any contentions he wanted to have considered. He filed a letter dated June 28, 2017, and a supplemental brief on July 24, 2017. The combined claims are as follows: (1) evidence of a robbery and attempted carjacking crime should not have been admitted at trial because it had nothing to do with a May 7, 2016, incident of domestic violence; (2) photographs of the alleged victim should not have been admitted into evidence; (3) at his preliminary hearing an officer improperly testified about the contents of a police report; and (4) his trial attorney was ineffective because he did not cross-
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