Evidentiary information and discovery
I am going to represent myself on a misdemeanor. Does the prosecutor in the discovery period before the pretrial have to have all the evidence from my side before the trial? I have a dispatch tape that has information on it that will make my case but i want to keep it quite until the trial. It shows the attacker was setting me up to be arrested.
Re: evidentiary information
Discovery procedures vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but typically if the prosecution is accorded some discovery rights under statute or rule, they would file a motion for discovery and seve you with it. Absent such a request, I doubt you are required to furnish them with anything. There's also a difference is prosecutors--some will always avail themselves of whatever discovery rights they have and some will never bother to pursue them.
Re: evidentiary information
You will have to follow the rules of court and civil/criminal proceedure for your state and what ever local rules of court for your jurisdiction. If this is am E911 dispach tape, don't you think they will also have it? Also it will have to be authenticated. Not all evidence is allowed into the record.