IN RE J.A.

No. B225717.

198 Cal.App.4th 914 (2011)

130 Cal. Rptr. 3d 512

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

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

August 25, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce G. Finebaum, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Eric E. Reynolds, and Ana R. Duarte, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GRIMES, J.

SUMMARY

The issue in this case is whether evidence was admissible under a rarely used—so far as published appellate cases reveal—statutory provision. Evidence Code section 1228 (hereafter section 1228) allows, as an exception to the hearsay rule in certain cases involving sex crimes against children, the admission of the child victim's out-of-court statements, but under specified conditions...

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