Court Opinion

ID: 9788529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:55:48.983374+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:59.079714
License: Public Domain

BAXTER, J., Concurring.
I concur with the majority and have also signed Justice Chin’s concurring opinion. To the extent that People v. Coddington (2000) 23 Cal.4th 529 [97 Cal.Rptr.2d 528, 2 P.3d 1081], which I authored, suggests that the work product rule would bar a prosecutor from commenting on the defendant’s failure to call defense experts who had examined forensic evidence relevant to the case, it merits reexamination. (See United States v. Grammer (9th Cir. 1975) 513 F.2d 673, 676.)