More California police departments are deploying body cameras. A new court ruling restricts how prosecutors can use footage of witness accounts at trial.
While body cameras are not mandatory among California agencies,last year and found that some of the largest police and sheriff’s departments in the state have given body cameras to all of their uniformed officers.
Statements made outside of court that cannot be verified at trial are called hearsay, and are generally prohibited. But there are exceptions, one of them being “,” which are statements made in the moment that don’t leave time for deliberation. Courts have found that these statements tend to accurately reflect what a person was thinking when they said something.
, and refused to appear at Gray’s criminal trial despite a subpoena. Los Angeles County prosecutors tried to introduce the body camera evidence, but a judge refused to allow it. “Rather, it’s actual video footage of who she is and how she presented at the time. gives the court ample basis to find the defendant in violation of probation.”
A California appellate court agreed and affirmed the decision to revoke his probation. Then the case went to the state Supreme Court.Previous probation revocation cases relying solely on paper evidence offered varying results.
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