The effect of a presumption affecting the burden of proof is to impose upon the party against whom it operates the burden of proof as to the nonexistence of the presumed fact.
Cal. Evid. Code § 606
General
Applied in 70 court decisions — leading case People v. Valdez (2012)
Most recently applied in 233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 220 - J.N. v. Superior Court of Orange Cnty. (May 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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