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PEOPLE v. BURROUGHS

Docket No. F005855.

188 Cal.App.3d 1162 (1987)

233 Cal. Rptr. 872

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WILLIAM DAVID BURROUGHS, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

January 23, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Garrett Beaumont, W. Scott Thorpe and Shirley A. Nelson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Gordon Hollingsworth, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

VARTABEDIAN, J.*

The People appeal the trial court's ruling disallowing the People's principal witness to testify as he previously had been hypnotized.

Respondent was convicted of kidnapping for ransom and assault with a deadly weapon. At trial, the victim, Jon Zagaris testified. The victim had been hypnotized by a police officer four days after the kidnapping. Under the rules announced...

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