How has the hearsay exception been interpreted?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. McNeil, B250116 (Cal. App. 2015):
admissibility did not depend on any exception to the hearsay rule. (People v. Merriman (2014) 60 Cal.4th 1, 72 ["The evidence was admitted for a purpose other than for the truth of the matter asserted, and therefore need not have met the reliability requirements of a hearsay exception"].)
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