Turcios

I. INTRODUCTION

After a court commissioner denied petitioner Henry Turcios’s request for release or bail pending a petition to revoke his postrelease community supervision (PRCS), petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus which we construed as a petition for writ of mandate. Petitioner contends that presiding over a bail review hearing is not one of the “subordinate judicial duties” that commissioners are constitutionally permitted to perform, absent a stipulation by the parties. We deny the petition.

II. BACKGROUND

On December 3, 2024, the Los Angeles County Probation Department filed a petition to revoke petitioner’s PRCS pursuant to Penal Code sections 1203.2 and 3455.1 A Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner reviewed the petition and supporting documents and found that probable cause supported the requested revocation. It therefore preliminarily revoked

Further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 PRCS, denied petitioner bail, and ordered that he be remanded into custody. On December 26, 2024, petitioner appeared before a Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner for arraignment on the petition.…