STATE EX REL. CORBIN v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. 9444.

104 Ariz. 271 (1969)

451 P.2d 600

STATE of Arizona ex rel. Robert K. CORBIN, County Attorney of Maricopa County, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT of the State of Arizona, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF MARICOPA; Thomas Tang, a Judge thereof, Juvenile Division; Donald Gene MITCHELL, Anthony Ray Mitchell, and Ray Anthony Jones, real parties in interest, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arizona. In Banc.

March 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moise E. Berger, Maricopa County Atty., Robert K. Corbin, Former Maricopa County Atty., Larry L. Debus, Deputy County Atty., Phoenix, for petitioner.

Vernon B. Croaff, Public Defender, Anne Kappes, Deputy Public Defender, Phoenix, for real parties in interest.

Sullivan & Mahoney, by William P. Mahoney, Jr., Phoenix, for the Honorable Thomas Tang, individually and as Judge of the Juvenile Division of the Maricopa County Superior Court.

Jack J. Rappeport, Tucson, for Amicus Curiae, George E. Dix, Jack J. Rappeport, and The National Council of Juvenile Court Judges.

Amelia D. Lewis, Sun City, for Amicus Curiae, Arizona Civil Liberties Union.


LOCKWOOD, Vice Chief Justice:

On April 15, 1968, petitions were filed in the Juvenile Division of the Maricopa County Superior Court asking that Ray Anthony Jones, Anthony Ray Mitchell, and Donald Gene Mitchell be adjudged delinquent. The petitions were identical and alleged that on or about April 8, 1968, the three boys murdered one Frank Blair, and on or about April 9, 1968, they stole a 1963 Chevrolet.

A hearing on these petitions was held on May 20, 1968...

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