PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. 38228, 20373.

20 Cal.App.3d 684 (1971)

97 Cal. Rptr. 886

THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Respondent; WARREN H. MOWRY, Real Party in Interest. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WARREN H. MOWRY, Defendant and Respondent. (Consolidated Cases.)

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

October 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

David D. Minier, District Attorney, A. Barry Cappello, Assistant District Attorney, and Zel Canter, Deputy District Attorney, for Petitioner in Civ. No. 38228 and for Plaintiff and Appellant in Crim. No. 20373.

Clifford Douglass, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Real Party in Interest in Civ. No. 38228 and for Defendant and Respondent in Crim. No. 20373.


OPINION

KINGSLEY, J.

This is another episode in the running battle between Judge Dodson of respondent court and the District Attorney of Santa Barbara County, over the efforts of Judge Dodson to apply his own, highly individualistic, methods of reducing court congestion and speeding the trial process in that county. To date the judge has lost two rounds;1 for the reasons set forth below, we conclude that...

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