Supreme Court of California
Goldstein v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles, S155944
In a claim alleging that defendants wrongfully obtained plaintiff's conviction for murder based on their pattern and practice of misusing the testimony of jailhouse informants, grant of plaintiff's Penal Code section 924.2 petition seeking access to grand jury materials is reversed where California courts do not have a broad inherent power to order disclosure of grand jury materials to private litigants.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/17/2008
- Published 11/17/2008
Judges
- CORRIGAN, J.
Court
- Supreme Court of California
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Kaye, McLane & Bednarski, Ronald O. Kaye, David S. McLane, Marilyn E. Bednarski, Pasadena, and Matthew N. Sirolly, for Petitioner., Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel, and Gordon W. Trask, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Real Party in Interest Los Angeles County Grand Jury., Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart, John J. Collins, Tomas A. Guterres, Douglas Fee and Eric C. Brown, South Pasadena, for Real Parties in Interest County of Los Angeles, John Van de Kamp and Curt Livesay.
- For Appellees:
- No appearance for Respondent.