People v. Oaxaca

Opinion

STEPHENS, Acting P. J.

On December 7, 1973, the Los Angeles Superior Court Appellate Department certified the instant case to this court. The important issue of law is specified as: “When a defendant in the municipal court is represented by counsel and enters into a plea bargain, may a commissioner of that court accept a plea and impose sentence in accordance with the plea bargain without an express stipulation that he may act as a [temporary judge]?” We add: or does the plea bargain proceeding render the action an uncontested one and therefore within the authorized duties of a…