Hearsay at Px

Name: Curry v. Superior Court (Orange County)
Case #: G047000
Opinion Date: 06/25/2013
  • Categories: Hearsay at Px, Preliminary Hearings

Summary

Investigator may testify at preliminary hearing regarding experts' findings on cause of death. Appellant's wife was killed in 1994. He was not charged with her murder until 2010, when forensic testing confirmed she was killed by lethal levels of nicotine…

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Name: Correa v. Superior Court
Case #: G027265
Opinion Date: 10/30/2000
  • Categories: Evidence, Hearsay, Hearsay at Px, Preliminary Hearings

Summary

A magistrate erred in admitting the testimony of police officers regarding the multiple hearsay statements of witnesses and a victim made through Spanish/English lay interpreters. Proposition 115 authorized an exception only to single-level hearsay from a properly trained investigating officer.…

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Name: Correa v. Superior Court
Case #: S093476
Opinion Date: 02/25/2002
  • Categories: Hearsay at Px, Preliminary Hearings

Summary

At appellant’s preliminary hearing, police officers testified regarding extrajudicial statements made by the Spanish-speaking victim and another Spanish-speaking witness. The officers did not understand Spanish, but received the statements through contemporaneous translations by unbiased bystanders, who also testified at the…

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