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KEENAN v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 24309.

31 Cal.3d 424 (1982)

640 P.2d 108

180 Cal. Rptr. 489

MAURICE JOHN KEENAN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

February 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

M. Gerald Schwartzbach and John J. Brosnahan for Petitioner.

George Agnost, City Attorney, and G. Leanette Flentroy, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien and William D. Stein, Assistant Attorneys General, Ann K. Jensen and Morris Lenk, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Maurice Keenan, an indigent defendant charged with a capital offense, seeks a writ of mandate to compel respondent superior court to grant his motion for public funds to pay for the services of a second attorney to assist in the preparation of his defense. He relies on Penal Code section 987.9 as authority for this request.1 For the reasons that...

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