Court Opinion

ID: 9629727
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:47:54.469207+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:22.763115
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NEWMAN, J.
I concur with Justice Mosk. I do not agree with Justice Richardson’s view, rejected by the majority in Hawkins v. Superior Court (1978) ante, p. 584 [150 Cal.Rptr. 435, 586 P.2d 916], that defendant here had no right to a postindictment preliminary examination.
Interestingly, to support their contention that such a right does exist, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundations of Northern and Southern California, participating here as amici, suggested that this court consider the juridical impact of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related documents. (Their brief cites inter alia art. 9(4) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; cf. Bixby v. Pierno (1971) 4 Cal.3d 130, 143, fn. 9 [93 Cal.Rptr. 234, 481 P.2d 242], citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Newman, Natural Justice, Due Process and the New International Covenants on Human Rights: Prospectus, 1967 Pub. L. 274, 279-280; Freund, Bakke: The Choices That Remain, N. Y. Times (July 9, 1978) p. E17, col. 4, citing the United Nations treaty on elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.)
In Hawkins, supra, counsel did not consider that American Civil Liberties Union suggestion. Thus it was not discussed in the opinions filed therein.
Appellant’s petition for a rehearing was denied December 13, 1978. Bird, C. J., Clark, J., and Richardson, J., were of the opinion that the petition should be granted.