Twiggs v. Superior Court

Opinion

BROUSSARD, J.

This case raises questions involving the duty of the prosecution to reveal the identity and location of a police informant whose testimony is material to the defendant’s guilt or innocence, and the propriety of the prosecution’s attempt to amend the information to charge prior felony convictions after the defendant has refused a plea bargain and invoked his right to a retrial.

Defendant seeks a writ of prohibition or mandate to prohibit the superior court from proceeding to retry him without ordering disclosure of the “identity” of the informant and striking the prior…