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People v. Clark

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of California
Citation
833 P.2d 561
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
35 of 35
Citing cases (total)
35
Treatment dates
2004
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. People v. Clark was overruled in part on the Confrontation Clause test for out-of-court statements. Crawford v. Washington rejected the reliability test Clark used for testimony from a pathologist who had not prepared the autopsy report.
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The California Supreme Court identified that change in People v. Pearson and People v. Edwards. All 35 flagged citations have been read; the confirmed treatment is listed below. Later courts continue to apply Clark's separate rulings on self-representation and trial procedure.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

35 later cases cite People v. Clark; 35 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The United States Supreme Court displaced Clark's reliance on a hearsay exception and indicia of reliability to satisfy confrontation rights when a statement is testimonial.

    Crawford v. Washington · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Roberts notwithstanding, we decline to mine the record in search of indicia of reliability. Where testimonial statements are at *69issue, the only indicium of reliability sufficient to satisfy constitutional demands is the one the Constitution actually prescribes: confrontation.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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