Category: Discovery

Review of the Law Offices of Paul D Toepel Attorney – The Dirty Truth   Paul D Toepel Jr. opinion and review of the Paul Toepel the man behind AttorneyPaul.com…

Major Exceptions To The Hearsay Rule   REVIEW OF THE CALIFORNIA HEARSAY RULE – EVIDENCE CODE 1200 California’s “hearsay rule,” defined under Evidence Code 1200, is a law that states…

RULES OF ADMISSIBILITY Evidence Admissibility   WHAT ARE THE RULES OF ADMISSIBILITY IN CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL CASES? In any criminal trial, the prosecution bears the burden of proving the defendant’s guilt…

City of San Jose v. Superior Court (Ted Smith) Releasing Private Text/Phone Records of Government  Employees City of San Jose v. Superior Court (Ted Smith) Opinion Summary Petitioner requested disclosure…

Anti-SLAPP Law in California 1st Amendment Freedom of Press & Speech What is Anti-SLAPP? Short for strategic lawsuits against public participation, SLAPPs have become an all-too-common tool for intimidating and silencing…

Conviction Integrity Unit The wrongful conviction of an innocent person should be every prosecutor’s greatest concern (FUCKING LAUGHABLE AT BEST OC DA IS A HARD NOSED ASHOLE MORON VINDICTIVE 2…

Policy 814: Discovery Requests – Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department Policy 814 Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department Orange County SD Policy Manual Copyright Lexipol, LLC 2021/02/26, All Rights Reserved. Published with permission…

CPRA Request Report / BodyCam Release / Incident Report Request / Other Data from for California and the OCSD   WHAT IS THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RECORDS ACT? In 1968, the…

Unconstitutional Prior Convictions   n Johnson v. Mississippi, 486 U.S. 578 (1988), the United States Supreme Court held that Johnson’s death sentence, which was based in part on a prior conviction…

  Discovery Abuse Our blog for this week discusses discovery abuse. “Discovery” is the stage in a lawsuit where parties to a case have a right to obtain evidence from…