California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hammon, 15 Cal.4th 1117, 65 Cal.Rptr.2d 1, 938 P.2d 986 (Cal. 1997):
I concur in the judgment. As indicated by my concurring and dissenting opinion in People v. Webb (1993) 6 Cal.4th 494, 537, 24 Cal.Rptr.2d 779, 862 P.2d 779, I am of the view that the Sixth Amendment affords criminal defendants a right to pretrial discovery of privately held and privileged documents when discovery is necessary to a fair trial. To invoke the right, however, a criminal defendant must first make a showing of good cause for discovery. In this context, good cause means a reasonable likelihood that the documents contain information that is both
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