Rodriguez v. Superior Court

Opinion

DEVENE, P. J.

Petitioner for a writ of prohibition has been charged with violating Penal Code sections 187 (murder) and 459 (burglary) and the trial before a jury has commenced. Shortly before the drawing of the jury, the judge to whom the case had been assigned for trial, made an “order for prosecution discovery.” Each of the six defendants including petitioner and their lawyers were charged by said order as follows: “Said defendants, and each of them, and their respective attorneys, Charles R. Garry, Michael Kennedy, Richard A. Hodge, and R. Jay Engel, are hereby ordered to furnish…