LEVERSEN v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 31666.

34 Cal.3d 530 (1983)

668 P.2d 755

194 Cal. Rptr. 448

MICHAEL A. LEVERSEN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

September 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael A. Leversen, in pro. per., Robert P. App, Giles, Stewart & Barnett and Giles, Stewart, Barnett & Harmon for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Cecil Hicks, District Attorney, Michael R. Capizzi, Assistant District Attorney, William W. Bedsworth and Connie S. Ferris, Deputy District Attorneys, and William Morrissey, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

GRODIN, J.

Petitioner is counsel for defendant Walter Gibbs in a criminal trial that we have stayed pending this proceeding. He seeks a writ of mandate directing the trial court to allow him to withdraw as counsel because of a conflict of interest stemming from confidential information received in the course of his firm's representation, in other proceedings, of a witness, Richard...

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