PEOPLE v. GUEVARA
Where custodian of records did not produce the entire personnel file for the court's review in response to discovery request and record did not indicate that trial court actually reviewed the list submitted by city attorney in support of the custodian's decision to produce no records for the court's examination, a new Pitchess hearing is required in which custodian must establish on the record what documents or category of documents were included in the complete personnel file and, if not readily apparent from the nature of the documents that they are nonresponsive or irrelevant to the discovery request, explain the decision to withhold them.
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