GREENBERGER v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B047792.

219 Cal.App.3d 487 (1990)

267 Cal. Rptr. 849

KAREN DELAYNE GREENBERGER, 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.

March 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Bierman, Shohat & Loewy, Edward R. Shohat and Marcia A. Morrissey for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Ira Reiner, District Attorney, Donald J. Kaplan and Brent Riggs, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

WOODS (Fred), J.

Does the statutory preference for a joint trial (Pen. Code, § 1098)1 constitute good cause (§ 1382) to delay for six months the murder trial of an in-custody defendant? Our answer is yes, if, as in the instant case, the circumstances are sufficiently exceptional.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On May 13, 1983, according to the information, Roy Radin...

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