Court Opinion

ID: 9762127
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:11:17.729937+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:30.365421
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SEILER, Presiding Judge
(concurring in result).
Although I concur in the result reached in the main opinion under the facts of this case, I am unable to agree that the Wade-Gilbert rules (United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218, 87 S.Ct. 1926, 18 L.Ed.2d 1149 and Gilbert v. California, 388 U.S. 263, 87 S.Ct. 1951, 18 L.Ed.2d 1178) are limited in their application to lineups occurring after indictment, assuming the point is to be resolved at all in view of counsel’s concession. In my view, the Wade-Gilbert rules are not so limited, for the reasons set forth in People v. Fowler, 1 Cal.3d 335, 82 Cal.Rptr. 363, 461 P.2d 643.
Also, I am of the opinion that we should not continue to deny defendant any discovery in criminal cases (the practical effect of our decisions), while continuing to permit the state to make discovery by way of the grand jury proceedings as is regularly done in some areas, and leaving it to the prosecutor to decide whether there is any favorable evidence known to the state which should be disclosed to defendant. Reasonable discovery permitted a defendant may very well speed up the administration of justice in Missouri. It is likely to result in speedier trials in disputed cases, and in more pleas or dismissals in the cases where there really is no genuine dispute.