Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain respondent court from retrying him in a criminal prosecution until Orange County furnishes him a free transcript of his first trial, which ended with a hung jury. We have concluded that the writ should issue.
Facts: Petitioner is charged with burglary, murder, and assault with a deadly weapon and further charged with the use of a firearm in violation...
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