Supreme Court of California

A child under 18 who has a consensual sexual relationship with a parent is not guilty of incest, is not an accomplice to the parent's crime, and the child's testimony against the parent is not subject to the cautionary rules governing accomplice testimony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2001
• Published 04/26/2001

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Dallas Sacher, Santa Clara, under appointment by the Supreme Court; and Chris R. Redburn, San Francisco, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Rene A. Chacon and Jeremy Friedlander, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.