Legal Opinion
People v. Taylor
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 29, 1992No. B053325PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
EPSTEIN, J.
In the published portion of this opinion, we discuss the responsibility of a trial court in conducting jury voir dire pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 223, added by Proposition 115, and find no basis for reversal in this case. In the unpublished portion of this opinion, we conclude that the prosecution was entitled to present tape-recorded prior inconsistent statements of witnesses, even though, at trial, the witnesses denied only the truth of the statements and did not deny having made them; and that the trial judge properly responded to a jury question asked…
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