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P1500 Courts do not have broad inherent power to order disclosure of grand jury materials to private litigants; under Penal Code section 924.4, a litigant may request portions of a grand jury transcript for the purpose of impeaching a witness, but the appropriate procedure is for the witness to testify, the litigant to request in camera inspection of the transcript by the court, and then, if the court finds that it contains potentially relevant impeachment material, it may release relevant pages to counsel, with an order restricting its use to impeachment.CitationGOLDSTEIN v SUPERIOR COURT (Grand Jury) 45 C4 218 [See: PenC 929, 924.2; Daily Journal Corp v Superior Court 20 C4 1117; McClatchy v Superior Court 44 C3 1162]
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