Goldstein

Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel and Gordon W. Trask, Principal Deputy, for Real Party in Interest Grand Jury of the County of Los Angeles.

Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart, John J. Collins, Tomas A. Guterres, South Pasadena, Douglas Fee and Eric C. Brown, Beverly Hills, for Real Parties in Interest County of Los Angeles, John Van de Kamp and Curt Livesay.

KLEIN, P.J.

Thomas Lee Goldstein seeks writ review of an order of the superior court denying Goldstein access to the raw evidentiary materials received by the 1988-1989 and 1989-1990 Los Angeles County Grand Juries during their investigation into the misuse of jailhouse informants over the preceding 10 years. Goldstein seeks these materials in connection with his pending federal civil rights lawsuit ( 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ) in which he asserts he wrongfully was convicted of murder in 1980 and spent 24 years in prison based on the perjured testimony of a jailhouse informant. The trial court denied Goldstein's motion, finding the statutory provisions relied upon by Goldstein (Pen.Code, §§ 924.2, 929 & 939.1) did not authorize disclosure. The trial court concluded that, absent express authorization, the general rule of grand…