Case ID: or_203/html/0313-01.html
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Author: {"author": "LUSK, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued February 2,
    peremptory writ issued February 16, 1955
    STATE ex rel. COON v. VANDENBERG
    280 P. 2d 350
    
      George E. Proctor, Klamath Falls, argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.
    
      Wolf D. von Otterstedt, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause as amicus curiae for respondent. With him on the brief was Robert V. Thornton, Attorney General, Salem.
    Before Warner, Chief Justice, and Tooze, Ross-man, Lusk, Brand and Perry, Justices.
   LUSK, J.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus involving the same question that we this day decided in the case of State ex rel Bushman v. Vandenberg. As in that proceeding it appeared that the defendant, the Honorable David R. Vandenberg, refused to act as judge in a criminal case pending before bim solely because the district attorney had filed a motion for a change of judge pursuant to ORS 14.220 and 14.230. In the other case we held the statute unconstitutional and ordered the issuance of a peremptory writ. For the reasons given in our opinion in that case the same result must follow here.

It is therefore ordered that a peremptory writ issue commanding the defendant to proceed with the determination of the criminal case of the State of Oregon v. Florin Melvin Coon pending in Klamath County.