PEOPLE v. REED

Docket No. S046378.

13 Cal.4th 217 (1996)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES REED, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

April 25, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Cliff Gardner, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Delaine Renard and Gardner & Derham for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Donna B. Chew, Joan Killeen and Allan Yannow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.

This case concerns the admissibility of hearsay evidence to prove that a criminal defendant's prior conviction was for a "serious felony" within the meaning of Penal Code sections 667, subdivision (a), and 1192.7, subdivision (c). Over defendant's hearsay objection, the prosecution introduced two pieces of evidence from the record of defendant's prior assault conviction to show that in the prior crime defendant...

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