COLEMAN v. SUPERIOR COURT IN & FOR COUNTY OF PIMA

No. 11413.

110 Ariz. 386 (1974)

519 P.2d 851

James W. COLEMAN, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT of the State of Arizona IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF PIMA and the Honorable Robert B. Buchanan, Judge of the Superior Court, Respondents; The STATE of Arizona, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Arizona, In Banc.

March 13, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Neis, Pima County Public Defender, Ed P. Bolding, Former Pima County Public Defender, Robert B. Norgren, Asst. Public Defender, Tucson, for petitioner.

Dennis DeConcini, Pima Co. Atty., James M. Howard, Deputy Co. Atty., Tucson, for respondents and real party in interest.


LOCKWOOD, Justice:

This is a special action brought in this court by James Coleman against the Superior Court of Pima County. The real party in interest is the State of Arizona. The issue before this court is whether the petitioner may be tried as an adult after his release from the Arizona State Hospital where he had been committed by the Juvenile Court until his twenty-first birthday.

On September 12, 1968 a petition was filed in juvenile court alleging...

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