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Criminal

Jan. 29, 2000

Safety Net

In Valladoli , the California Supreme Court faced the issue of whether a post-verdict amendment of an information is permissible.

By Laurie L. Levenson
        Prosecutors sometimes inadvertently fail to include all of a defendant's prior-felony conviction-enhancement allegations in an information. The issue that the courts have recently confronted is this: Can prosecutors correct their failure by amending an information or should the defendant benefit from the prosecutor's error?
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