Supreme Court of California

Trial court correctly compelled a wife to testify about her husband's crimes against a third person, pursuant to Evidence Code section 972(e)(2), even where no accusatory pleading charged defendant with a crime against his spouse; defendant committed a crime against a third person "in the course of committing a crime" against his spouse.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2002
• Published 06/13/2002

Judges

•  BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Sharon M. Jones and Diane Nichols, San Diego, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Laura Whitcomb Halgren, Robert M. Foster and Angela K. Rosenau, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.