MURGIA v. MUNICIPAL COURT

Docket No. L.A. 30426.

15 Cal.3d 286 (1975)

540 P.2d 44

124 Cal. Rptr. 204

JOSE GUADALUPE MURGIA et al., Petitioners, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE BAKERSFIELD JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF KERN COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 24, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gerald Blank, Miguel F. Garcia, Peter Haberfeld, Mike Kogan, Richard Paez, Barbara Rhine, W. Kenneth Rice and Dennis Roberts for Petitioners.

Harold E. Shabo, A. Jane Fulton, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Daniel C. Lavery, Fred Okrand, John D. O'Loughlin and Jill Jakes as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Marjory Winston Parker and Susan E. Cohn, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

We face here the narrow question whether the instant criminal defendants1 may obtain a discovery order directing the prosecutor to produce information relevant to defendants' claim that various penal statutes are being discriminately enforced against them. Defendants, members of the United Farm Workers Union (hereafter UFW), allege that the...

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