KELVIN L. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 47554.

62 Cal.App.3d 823 (1976)

133 Cal. Rptr. 325

KELVIN L., A Minor, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; CLARENCE E. CABELL, as Acting Chief Probation Officer, etc., Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

September 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richard S. Buckley and Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defenders, John M. Moore, Chief Deputy Defender, John J. Gibbons, Robert B. Berke, John L. Ryan and Laurence M. Sarnoff, Deputy Public Defenders, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent and for Real Party in Interest.

John K. Van de Kamp, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Arnold T. Guminski, Deputy District Attorneys, John H. Larson, County Counsel (Los Angeles), Jan A. Pluim, Deputy County Counsel, Burt Pines, City Attorney (Los Angeles), and Ward G. McConnell, Deputy City Attorney, as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

KAUS, P.J.

This is a proceeding in mandamus to compel discovery in a pending juvenile court matter (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 602) in which petitioner is charged with battery on a police officer.

Petitioner's discovery motion sought information in police files regarding citizens' complaints of excessive force or racial prejudice on the part of the arresting officers...

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