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Bill would allow discovery of police offense reports

Sen. John Carona has filed legislation to require District Attorneys to release police-generate offense reports to defense counsel in criminal cases, though details could be redacted for "good cause" and the bill would prohibit sharing the information outside the defendant's legal team. This would be a significant discovery reform, though I'd personally like to see exceptions tightened up.See the text of SB 661 (pdf) for more details.

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).