California Court of Appeal

In a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) administrative per se hearing on the issue of the suspension of petitioner's driver's license following arrest for driving under the influence, trial court's grant of the petition for a writ of mandate concluding that the petitioner can seek discovery of confidential peace officer personnel records pursuant to Pritchess v. Superior Court and its statutory codifications is reversed as the Pritchess procedure has no place in a DMV administrative per se hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/23/2010
• Published 04/23/2010

Judges

• RICHMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Goodman, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Alicia Fowler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Miguel A. Neri, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Fiel Tigno, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, David Carrillo, Deputy Attorney General, Jennifer G. Perkell, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Appellant.