In Re Marcario

Opinion

BURKE, J.

This case and two other cases presently before this court,1 raise questions regarding discovery by the prosecution in a criminal case. Petitioner herein, a deputy public defender, seeks habeas corpus to annul an oral order of contempt made after he refused, as attorney for a defendant in a pending murder case, to obey the trial court’s order compelling him to disclose to the district attorney the names, addresses and expected testimony of the witnesses defendant intends to call at trial.

Our opinion in Prudhomme v. Superior Court, supra, ante, page 320, granted to petitioner’s…