Ervin v. Chappell
- Vince Chhabria
- 3:00-cv-01228
- U.S. District Court · Northern District of California
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In Ervin v. Davis, Judge Chhabria ordered the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to provide death-penalty jury-selection files to settlement counsel.
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office must make the files available. Settlement counsel may use them in cases where they have been appointed and may share the evidence with co-counsel in those cases.
What happened
In Ervin v. Davis, the court ordered the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to make available to settlement counsel the jury-selection files from all Alameda cases in which a death-penalty sentence was imposed.
The order allows settlement counsel to use those files in every case where they have been appointed. It also allows settlement counsel to share the evidence with co-counsel in those cases.
Judge Vince Chhabria issued the document-production order on May 4, 2024. The opinion does not describe the underlying claims or explain the settlement-counsel appointments.
The detailed version
- Ervin v. Chappell · No. 3:00-cv-01228
- Vince Chhabria
- May 4, 2024
Order
The court ordered the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to make available to settlement counsel the jury-selection files in all Alameda cases in which a death-penalty sentence was handed down.
Authorized Use
Settlement counsel may use the files in all cases in which they have been appointed. Settlement counsel may also share the evidence with co-counsel in those cases.
Disposition
The court entered an order regarding document production. It cited Flowers v. Mississippi and Foster v. Chatman. The opinion does not identify the underlying claims, describe a motion, or provide additional details about the settlement-counsel appointments.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.