What is the test for making a statement of impending sense of death?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Gutierrez v. Grimmway Enters., Inc., F071839 (Cal. App. 2017):
from a gunshot wound to the head]; cf. People v. Adams (1990) 216 Cal.App.3d 1431, 1440 [in discussion of impending sense of death element, statements do not become inadmissible where death was arguably caused by refusal to accept steps to artificially prolong life].)
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