California Court of Appeal

In a petition for a writ of mandate seeking to compel the court to accept defendant's plea bargain, the petition is denied where the court's judicial assignment procedure was authorized by existing law, and no new local rule was required for its implementation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/09/2010
• Published 04/09/2010

Judges

• MARCHIANO, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeff Adachi, Teresa Caffese, Linda Harris Colfax and Christopher F. Gauger, for Petitioner., Duane A. Danmeyer and Michael C. McMahon for California Public Defenders Association and the Public Defender of Ventura County as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Ann C. Moorman and John T. Philipsborn for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General (Attorneys for Real Party in Interest).


• For Appellees:
  
• Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson and Joseph M. Quinn, for Respondent., Jarvis, Fay, Doporto & Gibson, Benjamin P. Fay and Rick W. Jarvis for Presiding Judges of the Superior Courts of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Napa Counties as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent.