People v. Bell

Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of first degree manslaughter as a lesser included offense of second degree murder as charged in the indictment. Defendant admitted shooting an acquaintance but claimed he did so in self-defense. Defense counsel’s cross-examination of four of the People’s witnesses revealed that each witness had been interviewed by the prosecutor who had taken handwritten notes of each interview. The prosecutor refused to turn over his notes to defense counsel, arguing that they constituted attorney work *938product and were exempt from the Rosario rule (see, People v Rosario, 9…