California Court of Appeal

Statements made by a stabbing victim to a 911 operator and the first police officer on the scene were admissible as spontaneous statements and were non-testimonial in nature, and therefore not barred by Crawford v. Washington (2004) 541 U.S. 36.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2007
• Published 06/18/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carmela F. Simoncini, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette and Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorneys General, Scott C. Taylor and Kelley Johnson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.