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IZAZAGA v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S017642.

54 Cal.3d 356 (1991)

815 P.2d 304

285 Cal. Rptr. 231

JAVIER VALLE IZAZAGA, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TULARE COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

August 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Neal Pereira, Public Defender, Tim Bazar, Assistant Public Defender, and Hugo Loza, Deputy Public Defender, for Petitioner.

Norwood Nedom, Michael E. Cantrall, Linda F. Robertson, Thomas Havlena, Kevin J. Phillips, Wilbur Littlefield, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Laurence M. Sarnoff and Albert J. Menaster, Deputy Public Defenders, Jay B. Gaskill, Public Defender (Alameda), and Harold G. Friedman, Assistant Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Richard B. Iglehart and George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Arnold O. Overoye and John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorneys General, Michael J. Weinberger and David D. Salmon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.

Edwin L. Miller, Jr., District Attorney (San Diego), Thomas F. McArdle, Deputy District Attorney, and Kent S. Scheidegger as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party In Interest.

OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

In this case we resolve several issues presented by the adoption on June 5, 1990, of an initiative measure designated on the ballot as Proposition 115 and entitled the "Crime Victims Justice Reform Act." Petitioner raises various challenges under the federal and state Constitutions to the provisions of the measure authorizing reciprocal discovery in criminal cases. (See also Raven v. Deukmejian...

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