People v. Zanotti

During the trial defendant’s retained counsel asked the District Attorney to make available to him, as an aid to cross-examination, a copy of the minutes of an earlier trial which the prosecutor had in the courtroom. This was refused and the Trial Judge declined to make a direction that the minutes be made available, on the ground no indigency had been shown and the minutes could have been otherwise obtained by defendant.

Ordinary professional courtesy would have suggested the minutes be made available for this purpose. But it was not an error of law for the court to refuse to make that…