City of Phoenix v. Peterson

The City of Phoenix and one of its policeman-employees, William Eugene Scott, petitioners, seek issuance of an original writ of prohibition to prevent enforcement of certain portions of a subpoena duces tecum directed to the Custodian of Records of the Phoenix Police Department, the deponent in a pretrial discovery proceeding in an action pending in the Superior Court. The petitioners, defendants in the trial court, contend that the Custodian should not be required to produce two classes of documents: (1) Police Department records of reprimands or disciplinary proceedings involving Officer…