Richardson v. District Court in & for the Eighth Judicial District

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting prosecutorial discovery of defense witness statements because no explicit authorization in rule and significant constitutional question concerning prosecutorial discovery counsel against allowing ad hoc discovery determinations
• “The exclusion of non-expert witnesses’ statements from prosecutorial discovery, far from being an oversight, reflects a purposeful decision to prevent the [potential] impairment of constitutional rights . . .”
• prosecution denied discovery of statements of nonexpert defense witnesses made to defense investigator; “trial court’s authority to grant discovery . . . must be limited to the categories expressly set forth in the rule”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).