California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. McCarthy, 46 Cal.Rptr. 805 (Cal. App. 1965):
There being no process of interrogation designed to elicit incriminating statements, the accusatory stage of the proceeding described in People v. Dorado, supra, 62 Cal.2d 338, 42 Cal.Rptr. 169, 398 P.2d 361, had not yet matured. The voluntary statement was therefore admissible as evidence and there is no error.
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