Except as otherwise provided by statute, every person, irrespective of age, is qualified to be a witness and no person is disqualified to testify to any matter.
Cal. Evid. Code § 700
Competency
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 2 Cal. 4th 408 - People v. Mincey (1992)
Most recently applied in 10 Cal. 5th 686 - People v. Flinner (November 2020)
Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 884, Sec. 1.
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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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