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PRYOR v. MUNICIPAL COURT

Docket No. L.A. 30901.

25 Cal.3d 238 (1979)

599 P.2d 636

158 Cal. Rptr. 330

DON BARRY PRYOR, Petitioner, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE LOS ANGELES JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

September 7, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Thomas F. Coleman and Coleman & Kelber for Petitioner.

Donald C. Knutson, Jerel McCrary, Paul Edward Geller, Jill Jakes, Fred Okrand, Terry Smerling, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Steven T. Kelber, Arthur C. Warner and Martha Goldin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Burt Pines, City Attorney, Laurie Harris and Mark L. Brown, Deputy City Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.

John W. Witt, City Attorney (San Diego), Jack Katz, John M. Kaheny and James J. Thomson, Jr., Deputy City Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

Defendant Don Pryor seeks prohibition to bar his trial on a charge of violating Penal Code section 647, subdivision (a). This section declares that a person is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, "Who solicits anyone to engage in or who engages in lewd or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public...

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