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IN RE LANCE W.

Docket No. Crim. 23551.

37 Cal.3d 873 (1985)

694 P.2d 744

210 Cal. Rptr. 631

In re LANCE W., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LANCE W., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

February 1, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defender, Alan H. Simon, Norman Tanaka, Gary M. Mandinach and Susan L. Burrell, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defender, Allan H. Keown and George L. Schraer, Deputy Public Defenders, and James S. Thomson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow, Cynthia Sonns Waldman and William R. Weisman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Robert H. Philibosian, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Richard W. Gerry, Deputy District Attorneys, and Christopher N. Heard as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

Proposition 8 on the June 1982 California primary election ballot added section 28, subdivision (d) (hereafter section 28(d)), to article I of the California Constitution. That section provides, inter alia: "Except as provided by statute hereafter enacted by a two-thirds vote of the membership in each house of the Legislature, relevant evidence shall not be excluded in...

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