IN RE BIRCH

Docket No. Crim. 16771.

10 Cal.3d 314 (1973)

515 P.2d 12

110 Cal. Rptr. 212

In re JAMES ROBERT BIRCH on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Warren I. Wolfe for Petitioner.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, and David M. Schacter, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

In July 1972 petitioner, James Birch, appeared before the Los Angeles Municipal Court without counsel and entered a plea of guilty to the misdemeanor charge of violating Penal Code section 647, subdivision (a), which proscribes engaging in "... lewd or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view."1 Birch now seeks a writ of habeas...

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