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INGRAM v. JUSTICE COURT

Docket No. Sac. 7831.

69 Cal.2d 832 (1968)

447 P.2d 650

73 Cal. Rptr. 410

MARCUS INGRAM, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. THE JUSTICE COURT FOR THE LAKE VALLEY JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF EL DORADO COUNTY, Defendant and Appellant; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 11, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Jack R. Winkler, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Appellant and for Real Party in Interest and Appellant.

Paul Ligda, Public Defender, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

John D. Nunes, Public Defender (Alameda), James R. Jenner, Assistant Public Defender, William R. Higham, Public Defender (Contra Costa), and Melvin W. Nitz, Public Defender (Fresno), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

MOSK, J.

On this appeal from a judgment ordering issuance of a writ of mandate, we are called upon to decide whether the trial court has the power to review the determination of a public defender that an accused who requests his services is "not financially able to employ counsel" (Gov. Code, § 27706, subd. (a)). We conclude that such a determination is not subject to judicial, as distinguished from political, review...

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