People v. Rodriquez

Although defendants alleged various grounds in the petition, they produced no proof in support of any of them. One of the grounds alleged was that the trial court withheld certain evidence—Magistrate’s Court’s minutes, which indicate that the prosecution’s main witness failed to identify *918defendants. At the hearing (to which the District Attorney consented in view of the defendants’ claim that at the trial the Assistant District Attorney had coerced a witness to testify falsely under threat of prosecution for perjury) defendants moved for the disqualification of -the Judge presiding, who also…