PEOPLE v. DIAZ

No. S205145.

60 Cal.4th 1176 (2015)

185 Cal. Rptr. 3d 431

345 P.3d 62

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DORA DIAZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

April 6, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dallas Sacher , under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Syda Kosofsky , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan, Jeffrey M. Laurence , Stan Helfman , Christopher J. Wei , Luke Fadem and Masha A. Dabiza , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

We granted review to resolve a conflict in the Courts of Appeal regarding whether a trial court has the duty to instruct a jury to consider a criminal defendant's out-of-court statements with caution when the statements at issue form the basis of a prosecution for making criminal threats. We also...

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