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BOWENS v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S019774.

1 Cal.4th 36 (1991)

820 P.2d 600

2 Cal. Rptr.2d 376

ROBERT BOWENS, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

December 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jay B. Gaskill, Public Defender, and Harold G. Friedman, Assistant Public Defender, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attprney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Clifford K. Thompson and Laurence K. Sullivan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.

Ira Reiner, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and George G. Size, Deputy District Attorneys, Kent S. Scheidegger and Charles L. Hobson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

In this case we resolve the issue of whether, in light of the June 5, 1990, adoption of an initiative measure designated on the ballot as Proposition 115 and identified as the "Crime Victims Justice Reform Act," an indicted defendant is entitled to or may receive a postindictment preliminary hearing in the courts of this state. (See also Whitman v. Superior Court (1991) 54 Cal.3d...

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