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COM. OF PA. EX REL. v. BULLOCK

471 Pa. 292 (1977)

370 A.2d 309

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania ex rel. F. Emmett FITZPATRICK, District Attorney of Philadelphia County v. Matthew W. BULLOCK, Judge, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 28, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham J. Gafni, Deputy Dist. Atty. for Law, Steven H. Goldblatt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief Appeals Div., Deborah, E. Glass, Asst. Dist. Atty., for petitioner.

Jonathan Vipond, III, Philadelphia, for respondent.

John Patrick, Philadelphia, for Yul B. Hayward.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Justice.

The Commonwealth, through the District Attorney of Philadelphia, is here seeking a writ of prohibition against Judge Matthew W. Bullock of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. This is the background.

On March 5, 1976, Yul Brynner Hayward, who was then fifteen and a half years old, was arrested and charged with murder, robbery, and related weapons offenses arising...

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