Evidence of a statement made by a dying person respecting the cause and circumstances of his death is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement was made upon his personal knowledge and under a sense of immediately impending death.
Cal. Evid. Code § 1242
Spontaneous, Contemporaneous, and Dying Declarations
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 34 Cal. 4th 743 - People v. Monterroso (2004)
Most recently applied in 246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 482 - People v. Ramirez (April 2019)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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