Foote v. Hart

CARL R. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Relator seeks our writ prohibiting respondent from ordering the production of notes recorded by relator’s attorney and her investigator regarding their interview of a state’s witness. In the underlying case relator is accused of murder in the first degree. In preparation for trial relator’s attorney and her investigator, one Jerry Wilson, interviewed a ten year old juvenile endorsed as a state’s witness. Apparently no verbatim record or formal written statement was made, but both the attorney and Wilson made handwritten notes during the interview. Upon the…