BLOCK v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B119878.

62 Cal.App.4th 363 (1998)

SHERMAN BLOCK, as Sheriff, etc., Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; ROBERT JOHN DOWNEY, JR., Real Party in Interest.

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

March 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel, S. Robert Ambrose, Assistant County Counsel, and James M. Owens, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

No appearance for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

BOREN, P.J.

Petitioner, Sherman Block, Sheriff of the County of Los Angeles (hereafter Sheriff), seeks a writ of mandate directing the superior court to set aside its order of March 3, 1998, directing the Sheriff to release real party in interest, Robert John Downey, Jr., from custody and to transport him — at Downey's expense — to Paramount Studios to complete work on a motion picture. The question is whether...

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