California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Reid v. Superior Court, 55 Cal.App.4th 1326, 64 Cal.Rptr.2d 714 (Cal. App. 1997):
4 We note that a victim cannot be compelled to talk to defense investigators or to submit to an interview (see Walker v. Superior Court (1957) 155 Cal.App.2d 134, 139-140, 317 P.2d 130), and that, once a victim has been contacted and clearly has refused to be interviewed by the defense, continued unwanted contact could conceivably justify restrictive orders. Since the victim has an absolute right not to be interviewed, we reject petitioner's request that we "devise some means of encouraging, affirmatively, the victims in this case to grant interviews to the defense."
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