Alanis v. Superior Court

Opinion

BURKE, J.

Rodolfo Alanis, an inmate at the California Institution for Men at Chino, seeks mandamus to compel the Los Angeles County Superior Court “to take jurisdiction of [his] petition for probation pursuant to . . . [a provision in Penal Code section] 1168 and to decide the case on its merits.” 1 We have concluded that the alternative writ should be discharged and the peremptory writ denied.

In 1964 "a jury found Alanis guilty of attempted robbery in the first degree (Pen. Code, §§ 211, 664) apd assault with a deadly weapon (Pen. Code, § 245). Probation was denied, and he was…