Cash v. Superior Court

Petitioner, who is charged by information with attempted burglary and solicitation to commit burglary, seeks a writ of mandate to compel respondent court to issue an order permitting him, prior to trial, to inspect and copy any recordings or transcriptions of conversations between him and Ned Barker, a police officer posing as a prospective accomplice.

At the preliminary hearing Barker testified that other officers told him petitioner had requested a woman named Barbara Hlubek to assist in securing an accomplice to participate in the burglary of a market. On January 7, 1959, Barker went to…