MONTEZ v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B060403.

5 Cal.App.4th 763 (1992)

OLIVER B. MONTEZ, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

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

April 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defender, Laurence M. Sarnoff, Charles Gessler, William Thornbury and Henry J. Hall, Deputy Public Defenders, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Ira Reiner, District Attorney, Maurice H. Oppenheim and Glenn R. Britton, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

HINZ, J.

INTRODUCTION

In a motion to disclose the addresses and phone numbers of eyewitnesses to a murder, the prosecution made a showing of sufficient danger of threats or harm to the witnesses, and the defense did not plausibly allege that the witnesses' veracity in their community was at issue. We therefore deny a petition for writ of mandate seeking to compel disclosure of this information.

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