California Court of Appeal

The prosecution withheld material evidence impeaching a prosecution witness, and a reasonable probability existed that a more favorable verdict would have resulted had the information (the witness's criminal history) been divulged, thus violating defendant's due process rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2002
• Published 11/22/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Cindi B. Mishkin, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant, Appellant and Petitioner., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Foster, Raquel M. Gonzalez and Elizabeth S. Voorhies, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.