California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Woods, 120 Cal.App.4th 929, 16 Cal.Rptr.3d 174 (Cal. App. 2004):
from investigation to accusation. For it is only then that the assistance of one versed in the `intricacies . . . of law' [citation] is needed to assure that the prosecution's case encounters `the crucible of meaningful adversarial testing.' [Citation.]" (Moran v. Burbine (1986) 475 U.S. 412, 430, 106 S.Ct. 1135, 89 L.Ed.2d 410, italics added.)
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