Civil Rights
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Defendant's conviction and sentence for various sex offenses against four victims is reversed as to one of the counts as the court erred in admitting a witness's hearsay statements and the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt as to defendant's conviction for that count.
Read People v. Vargas. No. B211821 [PDF]
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Filed October 22, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Willhite
Counsel
For Appellant: Richard A. Levy
For Appellee: Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Robert David Breton, Deputy Attorneys General