MOORE v. JAMIESON


451 Pa. 299 (1973)

Moore, Petitioner, v. Jamieson.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaiah W. Crippins, for petitioner.

Martin H. Belsky, Assistant District Attorney, for respondents.

Lynwood F. Blount, for intervenor, Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges.

David Rudovsky, with him Peter Hearn, Kairys & Rudovsky, and Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Union.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE NIX, March 19, 1973:

The petitioner, Cecil B. Moore, Esq., a member of the bar of Pennsylvania whose practice consists chiefly of representing criminal defendants in the City of Philadelphia, seeks a writ of prohibition against the enforcement of Rule [*]301 of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. That rule1 prohibits an attorney who represents ten or more criminal defendants whose indictments are over twelve...

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