CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay
......What is Not Hearsay
.........Reaction of Hearer
............To Explain Hearer's Actions
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No error in admitting statement friend made to W that he was riding around with a "187" (D) for the nonhearsay purpose of explaining W's conduct in reaction to the statement, and as a lead-in to a more incriminating statement D made to his father.