Opinion ID: 2581358
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Velisha Sorooshian

Text: Prosecution witness Velisha Sorooshian gave four tape-recorded interviews to the police. Tape recordings of three interviews (those of May 8, 1992, June 3, 1992, and March 25, 1994) were turned over to the defense, but the tape of another interview from April 20, 1993, when Sorooshian was in custody, was belatedly discovered during trial by Detective William Osborn of the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office. Before Sorooshian testified, the prosecution provided the defense with a tape recording of her April 20, 1993 interview, which the prosecutor described as the exact same statement Sorooshian had given on the March 25, 1994 tape, which the defense already had in its possession. Defendant argues that his opening statement to the jury would have corresponded more closely to the factual matters to which Sorooshian testified if the prosecutor had provided Sorooshian's April 20, 1993 taped interview before trial. Nonetheless, he had the recording of that interview before Sorooshian testified, and he suggests no specific prejudice apart from a slight variance between certain facts in his opening statement and the evidence adduced at trial, and accordingly he has failed to show prejudice from the belated disclosure.