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SAN JOSE MERCURY-NEWS v. MUNICIPAL COURT

Docket No. S.F. 24253.

30 Cal.3d 498 (1982)

638 P.2d 655

179 Cal. Rptr. 772

SAN JOSE MERCURY-NEWS, Petitioner, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE SUNNYVALECUPERTINO JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY et al., Respondents; ALFREDO GARZA et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

January 14, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edward P. Davis, Jr., Randolph M. Paul, and Rankin, Oneal, Center, Luckhardt, Marlais, Lund & Hinshaw for Petitioner.

Cooper, White & Cooper, Robert M. Raymer, Margaret H. Edwards, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Jerome C. Dougherty, Walter R. Allan, Joseph R. Tiffany II, Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, Josiah L. Neeper, Edward J. McIntyre, Irell & Manella, Richard H. Borow, Harold E. Kruth, Kenneth A. Liebman, Lillick, McHose & Charles, Kenneth E. Kulzick, Lawrence W. Dam, Robert Fremlin, Gail M. Heckemeyer, Jack B. Purcell, Herbert M. Schoenberg, Jonathan Kotler, Donald L. Zachary, Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., John E. Carne, Judith R. Epstein, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Herbert F. Wilkinson, Deputy Attorney General, Harold W. Fuson, Jr., and Rhonda Heth as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondents.

Harry J. Delizonna for Real Parties in Interest.

Wilbut F. Littlefield, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Dennis A. Fischer, James M. Hallett, Deputy Public Defenders, Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, and Richard S. Kessler, Deputy State Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

NEWMAN, Acting C.J.

The San Jose Mercury-News sought mandate to compel respondent Otis, a judge of the Sunnyvale-Cupertino Municipal Court who presided over a preliminary hearing in a felony complaint (People v. Garza et al., No. C80-25432), to vacate his order closing the hearing under Penal Code section 868 and to issue a new order opening the hearing to media and public.

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