The informal request for discovery was handled by a court clerk who apparently didn't quite know what to do with a letter addressed to the District Attorney. I waited the requisite 15 days as specified in Penal Code Section 1054.5(b), and sent this request for a court order for discovery. If you click on the page on the left, you'll be able to review it. Naturally, it's pretty straightforward.
And again, in this letter, I sent back the same check I had enclosed with my original informal request for discovery - based on the "bail amount" indicated on the courtesy notice - the check they had returned to me along with the Trial By Declaration forms. That was only the first time that they would return the check to me.
Again, I sent a registered letter with a return receipt, which is almost always good practice when you're dealing with a lumbering bureaucracy that holds the fate of your right to travel under its blind and uncaring control.
At the end of the letter, you'll note I was still using the June 13 date written on the citation. I actually wound up showing up at the court on that date, but an officer pointed out the modified due date on the courtesy notice, leading me to send my next letter, in order to clear up the confusion.
