California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Viehmeyer, G045700 (Cal. App. 2012):
In doing so, the court recognized the availability of a procedure whereby the trial court "can photocopy [the documents it reviewed] and place them in a confidential file," (People v. Mooc, supra, 26 Cal.4th at p. 1229) but went on to say, "Alternatively, the court can prepare a list of the documents it considered, or simply state for the record what documents it examined." (Ibid.) That is what the trial court did in this case, so I must sign the opinion.
Usually, when I come up against a result I find inexplicable, I go back over my work looking for the mistake that led me to that result. Usually I find it. But I can't find it here. There are cases I can distinguish. In People v. Prince (2007) 40 Cal.4th
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