Supreme Court of California

Welfare and Institutions Code 6600(a)(3), which permits details of predicate offenses to be proven by documentary evidence in a sexually violent predator commitment proceeding, permits admission of multiple hearsay that does not fall within any exception to the hearsay rule.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2001
• Published 07/23/2001

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Ozro William Childs, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Santa Rosa, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias and Linda M. Murphy, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.