Opinion ID: 548450
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Preparation

Text: 38 Bosch argues that Palacios conducted no discovery and was unprepared for trial. The record, however, does not support this claim. There is not a hint in the portion of the transcript cited by Bosch that Palacios failed to conduct discovery. Moreover, the sections of the transcript at which Bosch claims Palacios demonstrated his unpreparedness demonstrate only that he had just received what appears to be several hundred pages of documents from the government an hour before the trial was to begin; that he asked the court for more time (which was granted) to review discovery materials prior to cross-examination on areas which he had not expected to arise; that he did not have a copy of a prosecution witness's preliminary hearing testimony when he needed it for cross-examination and excused the witness, subject to recall after he looked over that document; and that he had just been handed some transcripts which neither he nor counsel for Bosch's son had had a chance to review. On the basis of these incidents, Palacios' preparation was not unreasonable.