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VELA v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. B037366, B038073.

208 Cal.App.3d 141 (1989)

255 Cal. Rptr. 921

JOE R. VELA, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE et al., Real Parties in Interest. CITY OF CULVER CITY, Petitioner, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE CULVER JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; JOHN PENGEY, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

February 28, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Abby Besser Klein and Ronald A. Ziff for Petitioner in No. B037366.

Joseph W. Pannone, City Attorney, Evelyn Keller and Carol A. Schwab, Deputy City Attorneys, for Real Parties in Interest in No. B037366 and for Petitioner in No. B038073.

No appearance for Respondents.

Brad M. Fox for Real Party in Interest in No. B038073.

OPINION

CROSKEY, J.

In these consolidated writ proceedings we are presented with the novel question of whether a city may shield from production in a criminal prosecution, under the attorney-client privilege, those statements made by its police officers to an investigating team organized by the city's police department to gather and preserve evidence for use by the city attorney in the defense of a possible future civil action...

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