People v. Berry

Opinion

HUFFMAN, Acting P. J.

Michael Edward Berry was convicted of perjury following a court trial. (Pen. Code, § 118.)1 He appeals, raising the single contention the evidence of his false testimony during a family court proceeding should have been excluded from evidence in his perjury trial because of the failure of the family court to warn Berry at that time of his rights against compelled self-incrimination as established by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. (See also, Cal. Const., art. I, § 15; Evid. Code, § 940.) Based upon the record before us, we find the family law…