Deleoz

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Procedural History In July 2017, the Santa Clara County District Attorney filed an information charging Deleoz with the murder of Lee. (§ 187; count 1.) The jury trial began in October 2019. In an in limine motion, Deleoz moved the trial court to order the disclosure of impeachment information related to the medical examiner, Dr. Michelle Jorden. Specifically, Deleoz requested unredacted copies of two internal memoranda prepared by the office of the district attorney discussing investigations in which Dr. Jorden had been involved and which had been provided to the defense before trial, heavily redacted. The trial court denied the defense’s request to disclose the unredacted portions of the memoranda, stating “I believe the redacted

1 Unspecified statutory references are to the Penal Code. 2 portions constitute work product and are not Brady or exculpatory material.” We examine the trial court’s ruling in more detail in our discussion, post. In November 2019, a jury found Deleoz not guilty of first-degree murder, not guilty of the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder, and guilty of the lesser- included offense of involuntary…