Cooper v. Superior Court

— In this certiorari proceeding Attorney Grant B. Cooper seeks annulment of an order of respondent superior court adjudging him guilty on two counts of direct contempt and fining him $250 on each count. The events leading to the subject commitments occurred during the second trial, before a jury, of the case of People v. Finch and Pappa, Los Angeles County Superior Court Number 220164. The charge was murder. On conviction, if the murder was found to be of the first degree, the punishment could be death. Petitioner, acting as attorney for defendant Pinch, was twice adjudged in contempt for…