Redmond
People v. Redmond
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Tamura, J.
This is a companion appeal to People v. Redmond, ante, p. 852 [ 55 Cal.Rptr. 195 ] 4th Criminal No. 2529, wherein defendant appealed from a judgment of conviction on one count of escape and one count of robbery.
In 4th Criminal No. 2529, decided this day and to which reference is made for the factual background giving rise to this appeal, defendant sought a reversal of his robbery conviction on the ground, among others, that the trial court abused *866 its discretion in denying his motion for a new trial. The motion was made on the ground that the prosecution’s witness had given an affidavit that he may not have been certain of his identification of defendant. The affidavit, however, was never produced or offered.
During the pendency of his appeal from the judgment of conviction (4th Criminal No. 2529), defendant moved this court to order augmentation of the record on appeal in 4th Criminal No. 2529 to include the affidavit. Following a denial of that motion, defendant made a motion in the superior court to vacate the judgment for the purpose of getting the affidavit into the record. That motion was denied and defendant prosecutes this appeal from the order denying his…