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SIMS v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES CTY.

Docket No. B072882.

18 Cal.App.4th 463 (1993)

22 Cal. Rptr.2d 256

JOHN ALLEN SIMS, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

August 30, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wilbur Littlefield, Public Defender, Albert J. Menaster, Ilona Peltyn and Kathy Quant, Deputy Public Defenders, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Gil Garcetti, District Attorney, Diana L. Summerhayes and Brentford J. Ferreira, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

GODOY PEREZ, J.

Penal Code section 872, subdivision (b), enacted as part of the "Crime Victims Justice Reform Act" (Proposition 115) in 1990, permits hearsay testimony at a preliminary hearing by a "law enforcement officer."1 At issue in this case is whether an investigator for the Franchise Tax Board qualifies as a "law enforcement officer" for...

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