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COM. ex rel. RIGGINS v. SUPT. of PHILA. PRISONS

438 Pa. 160 (1970)

Commonwealth ex rel. Riggins, Appellant, v. Superintendent of Philadelphia Prisons.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 26, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian E. Appel, with him Harold L. Randolph, for appellant.

James D. Crawford, Assistant District Attorney, with him David Richman, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, March 26, 1970:

This case involves the challenged right of the President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia to assign specially a Judge of the Trial Division of that Court to sit as a committing magistrate on the rearrest of a juvenile charged with murder and related crimes.

Louis Riggins, at the age of seventeen, was charged with murder and given a preliminary hearing on December

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