California Court of Appeal

Evidence Code section 1380, adopted to facilitate the introduction of hearsay statements by the victims of various forms of elder abuse, meets constitutional standards, though the prosecution failed to lay an adequate foundation for the admission of videotaped testimony of one of the victims that was received under its authority.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/10/2003
• Published 12/10/2003

Judges

• POLLAK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Renee E. Torres, J. Bradley O'Connel, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Eric D. Share, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Ashley Ott, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.