People Ex Rel. Younger v. Superior Court

Opinion

KAUFMAN, J.

These are consolidated mandate proceedings by which the District Attorney of San Bernardino County and the Attorney General of the State of California seek to annul orders of the San Bernardino Superior Court recusing the entire prosecutorial office of the district attorney as prosecutor and ordering the Attorney General to undertake the prosecution in a pending case in which real parties in interest Rabaca, French and Roybal (hereafter referred to as defendants or real parties) are charged by indictment with murder.1

The essential question presented is whether the trial…