MOWRER v. APPELLATE DEPARTMENT

Docket No. B050964.

226 Cal.App.3d 264 (1990)

276 Cal. Rptr. 38

GLEN MOWRER, as Public Defender, etc., Petitioner, v. THE APPELLATE DEPARTMENT OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Respondent; THOMAS CHRISTOPHER MURPHY et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

December 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Glen Mowrer, Public Defender, in pro. per., and Jake Stoddard, Deputy Public Defender, for Petitioner.

Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Laurence M. Sarnoff and Albert J. Menaster, Deputy Public Defenders, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

David Nawi, County Counsel, and Peter J. Rensel, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

Lentz & Duval and Gilbert W. Lentz for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

STONE (S.J.), P.J.

Here we consider whether a county public defender is mandated by statute to provide representation to all indigent misdemeanants on appeal in the absence of a written declaration that the proposed appeal will not reasonably be expected to result in the reversal or modification of the defendant's sentence. We hold that Government Code section 27706, subdivision...

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