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PEOPLE v. ZAMORA

Docket No. Crim. 21063.

28 Cal.3d 88 (1980)

615 P.2d 1361

167 Cal. Rptr. 573

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOSEPH ANTHONY ZAMORA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 28, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Irwin Siegel for Defendant and Appellant.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, Charles M. Sevilla, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Dennis A. Fischer and Robert Berke, Deputy Public Defenders, A. Wallace Tashima, Tracy S. Rich and Morrison & Foerster as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, District Attorney, Harry B. Sondheim, Donald J. Kaplan and Richard W. Gerry, Deputy District Attorneys, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Howard J. Schwab and Carol Wendelin Pollack, Deputy Attorneys General, Burt Pines, City Attorney (Los Angeles), George C. Eskin, Chief Assistant City Attorney, Rand Schrader, Laurie Harris and S. Thomas Todd, Deputy City Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

Defendant appeals from convictions for battery on a police officer (Pen. Code, §§ 242, 243) and resisting an officer in the discharge of his duties (Pen. Code, § 148). About two weeks before defendant's arrest in May of 1976, the Los Angeles City Attorney's office directed the destruction of all past records through 1974 of citizen complaints against police...

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