PEOPLE v. PARTEE

No. S248520.

8 Cal.5th 860 (2020)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. STARLETTA PARTEE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

January 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Kleven , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters , Assistant Attorney General, Louis W. Karlin , Scott A. Taryle , Stacy S. Schwartz , Colleen M. Tiedemann and Ilana Herscovitz Reid , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jackie Lacey , District Attorney (Los Angeles), Phyllis C. Asayama and Kenneth Von Helmolt , Deputy District Attorneys, for Los Angeles County District Attorney as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

After voluntarily speaking with law enforcement in the course of a murder investigation, defendant Starletta Partee declined to testify against four suspects in the ensuing prosecution, notwithstanding the compulsion of a subpoena and a grant of use immunity. The district attorney then prosecuted Partee for her...

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