People v. Gallardo
Annotate this CaseDefendants Angel Gallardo, Michael Gallardo and Smith Garcia were charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting at an occupied car. The primary piece of evidence at trial was a surreptitiously-recorded jailhouse conversation between Angel Gallardo and two paid informants who were posing as inmates. The Court of Appeal reversed the judgments against Garcia and Michael Gallardo, holding that certain statements Angel made to informants regarding his co-defendants' role in the shooting constituted inadmissible hearsay. The court affirmed the judgment as to Angel.
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