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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 18:40:02+00:00

Document:
Edwin S. Saul for Petitioner.
Cecil Hicks, District Attorney, Michael R. Capizzi, Assistant District Attorney, Oretta D. Sears and John D. Conley, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.
This is a petition for original writ of mandate to compel dismissal of an indictment or, in the alternative, to order a postindictment preliminary hearing.
On May 3, 1977 -- almost four years after the complaint was filed -- petitioner was apprehended on the bench warrant. He appeared and moved for a dismissal of the indictment or, in the alternative, for a postindictment preliminary hearing. At some time prior to May 19, 1977, the district attorney voluntarily obtained a dismissal of the complaint. On that date petitioner was arraigned on the indictment, and trial was set for July 18, 1977. On June 10, however, petitioner's motion for dismissal or a preliminary hearing was heard and denied, and he sought review by writ of mandate. We granted an alternative writ and issued a stay.
 The principal contention of the petition is, in effect, that an indicted defendant is denied equal protection of the laws under the California Constitution unless he is given the right to a postindictment preliminary hearing upon request. We so held in Hawkins v. Superior Court (1978) 22 Cal. 3d 584 [150 Cal. Rptr. 435, 586 P.2d 916]; but in view of the prior official reliance on contrary procedures, we declared (at p. 594) that the new rule "shall apply only ... to those indicted defendants who have not entered a plea at the time this opinion becomes final."
The record in the superior court reveals that petitioner entered a not guilty plea to each count of the indictment on May 19, 1977. fn. 1 Hawkins became final on December 13, 1978. By its terms, therefore, its rule is inapplicable to petitioner, and the trial court did not err in denying his motion for a postindictment preliminary hearing.
[2a] In the alternative, petitioner attacks the indictment itself on two grounds. First, he complains that the district attorney violated Johnson v. Superior Court (1975) 15 Cal. 3d 248, 255 [124 Cal. Rptr. 32, 539 P.2d 792], by withholding assertedly exculpatory evidence from the grand jury. The point is neither properly before us nor meritorious. A defendant seeking review of a ruling of the trial court by means of a petition for extraordinary writ must provide the appellate court with a record sufficient to permit such review. (Krueger v. Superior Court (1979) 89 Cal. App. 3d 934, 938 [152 Cal. Rptr. 870]; Thompson v. Superior Court (1968) 262 Cal. App. 2d 98, 106 [68 Cal. Rptr. 530]; see Morelli v. Superior Court (1969) 1 Cal. 3d 328, 333 [82 Cal. Rptr. 375, 461 P.2d 655].) The record must if possible be lodged with the appellate court at the time the original petition for writ is filed. To be adequate, such a record should ordinarily include any written motion and opposition thereto together with their respective points and authorities, any relevant pleadings or [24 Cal. 3d 187] reporter's transcripts, and any written dispositive order. Whenever the consideration of an exhibit is necessary for a complete understanding of the case, a copy thereof must also be furnished. And each item in the record, of course, must be legible.
In the present matter petitioner has provided only his motion and the People's opposition thereto; he has failed to furnish us with transcripts of either the grand jury proceeding or the hearing on his motion, and without those transcripts the record is insufficient to permit review of his Johnson claim.
[2b] In any event, even if the record were adequate the claim would be untenable: the Johnson rule is not retroactive (People v. McAlister (1976) 54 Cal. App. 3d 918, 925-926 [126 Cal.Rptr. 881]), and this indictment predated Johnson by two years.
It follows that petitioner is not entitled to the relief prayed for.
The alternative writ is discharged and the peremptory writ denied.

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