Hall v. Superior Court

Opinion

JOHNSON, J.

Panchita Hall seeks a writ of mandate to compel respondent superior court to permit her to file her Pitchess 1 motion and to rule on the merits of her motion. She claims the Criminal Division of the South Central District of the Los Angeles County Superior Court enforces an invalid local rule requiring all pretrial motions, regardless of nature or type, be both filed and heard 30 days before trial, and for this reason the court refused to calendar her Pitchess motion filed 30 days before trial. We conclude the court’s apparent practice of requiring all motions to be filed…