Breed v. Superior Court

Opinion

SIMS, J.

The Director of the Department of the Youth Authority has sought a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent superior court, hereinafter referred to as the juvenile court, from enforcing an order which continued real party in interest, then 18, now 19, under an earlier commitment to the Youth Authority and released him from custody pending a further hearing. The director also seeks a writ of mandate compelling the juvenile court to set aside that order.

The subject of the order, who was born August 20, 1957, was last committed to the Youth Authority on July 29, 1975, when…