People v. Ramirez
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal affirmed defendant's conviction of felony hit-and-run driving causing death or injury to another. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court committed evidentiary error by precluding admission of a postaccident hospital record that contained a statement attributed to the victim. The court held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by excluding the record and finding that the alleged statement was not reliable and failed to qualify as a dying declaration. In this case, while defendant contended that the hospital record would have lent credibility to his testimony, the court was not persuaded that its preclusion amounted to a due process violation.
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