Dodge v. Kross

The petitioner, district attorney of New York county, seeks to have this court issue a peremptory order of man-*486damns to the respondent, a magistrate, requiring her to admit to every examination conducted before her as a magistrate the petitioner or his duly authorized assistant or deputy assistant at any time while she is holding court as a magistrate. The occasion for seeking this relief is the exclusion by the magistrate from participation in any proceedings of Vincent A. Cattogio, a deputy assistant district attorney assigned by the petitioner to represent the People in a court then being…