Reyes

Mandate. Petitioner Reyes was charged in municipal court under Penal Code section 647, subdivision (b) with soliciting an act of prostitution from Patti May, an undercover police officer. After his first trial ended in a hung jury, he filed two motions for “pretrial” discovery of information his counsel asserted was necessary to adequately prepare an entrapment defense on retrial. His first motion sought, among other items, disclosure of the names and addresses of 14 other persons arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department’s “trick” team on the same corner and on the same night petitioner was arrested. His second motion sought, among other items, the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of persons who had filed complaints with the police department alleging that Officer May acted in the manner of a prostitute, solicited acts of prostitution, conducted herself in a manner unbecoming an officer, made false arrests, and fabricated charges. It also sought the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of persons interviewed by the police department during its investigations of complaints against May; copies of all investigative reports made as a result of such complaints;…