Supreme Court of California

Evidence Code section 1045(b)(1)'s five-year limitation on court-ordered discovery of citizen complaints against police officers does not, on its face, violate the due process of defendant, charged with sexually molesting a minor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/26/2002
• Published 08/26/2002

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  James K. Hahn and Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorneys, Cecil W. Marr, Assistant City Attorney, and Julie S. Raffish, Deputy City Attorney, for Petitioner., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Laura Whitcomb Halgren and Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Attorney General of the State of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.,  Mastagni, Holstedt, Chiurazzi & Amick, Christopher W. Miller, and David P. Mastagni, Sacramento, for Peace Officers Research Association of California Legal Defense Fund and Peace Officers Research Association of California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Diane Marchant, Los Angeles, for Los Angeles Police Protective League as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Jones & Mayer and Paul R. Coble, Long Beach, for California State Sheriffs' Association, California Police Chiefs' Association and California Peace Officers' Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Richard Leonard for Real Party in Interest., Michael P. Judge, Public Defender, Albert J. Menaster and Mark G. Harvis, Deputy Public Defenders, for Los Angeles County Public Defender as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.