Rice v. Superior Court

Opinion

KINGSLEY, J.

I

We deal first with certain procedural issues.

This is an original proceeding, seeking, in the alternative, either a writ of mandate or a writ of prohibition to secure the dismissal of a criminal charge pending against petitioner in respondent court. The petition sets forth petitioner’s version of the events involved in his arrest and it is supported by 21 exhibits and by a reporter’s transcript of a hearing in respondent court. Counsel for the real party in interest has asked us to “strike” all except six of the exhibits and the portions of the brief referring to them, on…