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PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

Docket No. Crim. 11964.

68 Cal.2d 646 (1968)

441 P.2d 111

68 Cal. Rptr. 599

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. EDWIN C.S. JOHNSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 28, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Nareau, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Young & Nareau for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Edsel W. Haws and Arnold O. Overoye, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

MOSK, J.

This appeal from a judgment of conviction of incest (Pen. Code. § 285) presents the important question whether section 1235 of the new Evidence Code, making prior inconsistent statements of a witness admissible for the truth of the matters therein asserted, violates the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right of confrontation when introduced against a defendant in a criminal prosecution. We conclude...

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