YOUNGER v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. S.F. 23517, 23597.

21 Cal.3d 102 (1978)

577 P.2d 1014

145 Cal. Rptr. 674

EVELLE J. YOUNGER, as Attorney General, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Respondent; JAMES WILLIAM MACK, Real Party in Interest. JAMES WILLIAM MACK, Petitioner, v. EVELLE J. YOUNGER, as Attorney General, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

April 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Michael Franchetti and G. Michael Gates, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioners and Respondent.

No appearance for Respondent Court.

Robert McDermand III and George K. Littlefield for Real Party in Interest and Petitioner.

Patrick R. Murphy, Public Defender (Contra Costa), Jeff C. Bradley, Deputy Public Defender, Leo Paoli, Arthur M. Sohcot, Maryjane Mulholland, Peter H. Meyers and Gordon S. Brownell as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

These writ proceedings present the question whether James William Mack, the real party in interest in the first matter (S.F. 23517) and the petitioner in the second (S.F. 23597), is entitled to the destruction of certain official records pertaining to his conviction in 1972 of possession of marijuana in violation of former Health and Safety Code section 11530.1 The cases require us to...

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