MATTHEWS v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B027908.

201 Cal.App.3d 385 (1988)

247 Cal. Rptr. 226

EDMUND ARNE MATTHEWS, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

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

May 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defender, Laurence M. Sarnoff, Martin Wegman and Henry J. Hall, Deputy Public Defenders, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Ira Reiner, District Attorney, Harry B. Sondheim, Donald J. Kaplan and Maurice H. Oppenheim, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

JOHNSON, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court from allowing him to be prosecuted for the murder of Lisa Mather (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)) with the special allegation he was engaged in the commission of rape at the time of the murder (Pen. Code, § 190.2, subd. (a)(17) and for the rape of Lisa Mather (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (2).) Petitioner alleges the superior court improperly...

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