Supreme Court of California

Habeas petitioners under judgment of death or life without possibility of parole who seek discovery under Penal Code section 1054.9 should first make the discovery motion in the trial court that rendered the judgment. Discovery is limited to materials currently possessed by authorities involved in the case that either 1) should have been provided at time of trial, 2) would have been provided at time of trial had the defendant specifically requested them, or 3) were provided at time of trial but have since become lost to the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2004
• Published 03/08/2004

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Gregory Marshall, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Palo Cedro, for Petitioner Raymond Edward Steele., Michael Laurence, Jeannie R. Sternberg and Cristina Bordé, San Francisco, for Habeas Corpus Resource Center as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner Raymond Edward Steele.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell and Eric L. Christoffersen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the People.