California Court of Appeal

A conviction for kidnapping and false imprisonment is affirmed where the trial court did not err in instructing the jury with CALCRIM No. 318 as the instructions did not lessen the prosecution's burden of proof by elevating out-of-court statements to unquestionable reliability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2009
• Published 07/14/2009

Judges

• SIMS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard D. Miggins, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Charles A. French and Brook Benningson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.