PEOPLE v. WHITE

No. B218065.

191 Cal.App.4th 1333 (2011)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMAL CHARLES WHITE, Defendant and Appellant.

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

January 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudy Kraft , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka , Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey , Mary Sanchez , and Taylor Nguyen , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

PERREN, J.

The procedures attendant to a criminal defendant's right to discover relevant evidence in confidential peace officer personnel files— through the filing of a so-called "Pitchess"1 motion—are established by both statute and decisional law.2 The defining hallmark of the process is an in camera hearing in which the trial court reviews the files...

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