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PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT (MITCHELL)

Docket No. S026362.

5 Cal.4th 1229 (1993)

859 P.2d 102

23 Cal. Rptr.2d 403

THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF MONTEREY COUNTY, Respondent; JOSEPH D. MITCHELL, JR., Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

October 18, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama and Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorneys General, Laurence K. Sullivan, Morris Beatus and David D. Salmon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

Edwin L. Miller, Jr., District Attorney (San Diego), Thomas F. McArdle and Paul M. Morley, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

James H. Newhouse, Skemp, Dozier & Moser and James H. Dozier for Real Party in Interest.

James S. Thomson, John G. Cotsirilos and Elizabeth Missakian as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

Proposition 115, adopted by the people at the June 1990 Primary Election, contains a variety of provisions relating to criminal law and procedure, including sections authorizing reciprocal pretrial discovery by the parties to a criminal action. (Pen. Code, § 1054 et seq.; see Izazaga v. Superior Court (1991) 54 Cal.3d 356 [285 Cal.Rptr...

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