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PEOPLE v. GUERRA

Docket No. Crim. 22327.

37 Cal.3d 385 (1984)

690 P.2d 635

208 Cal. Rptr. 162

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JON MATTHEW GUERRA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

November 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Charles V. Weedman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Michael Ian Garey, Garey & Bonner, Crosby, Garey & Bonner and Thomas F. Crosby, Jr., for Defendants and Appellants.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Harley D. Mayfield, Louis R. Hanoian, Jay M. Bloom and John W. Carney, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Robert H. Philibosian, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Roderick W. Leonard, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

In People v. Shirley (1982) 31 Cal.3d 18, 66-67 [181 Cal.Rptr. 243, 641 P.2d 775], we held that the use of hypnosis to restore or improve the memory of a potential witness is not accepted as a reliable procedure by a consensus of the relevant scientific community, and hence the testimony of such a witness is inadmissible...

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