CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Statements
......Admissions (Crim.)
.........Admission & Confession Distinguished
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Admission and confession distinguished.

Letter D wrote to co-D with Satanic remarks and DA's questioning of W about D's interest in Satanism were either relevant and admissible or objections forfeited—references were brief and scattered and not a centerpiece of DA's case.

Despite any ambiguity in DA's statements, trial court's instructions made clear that D's identity as the murderer had to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

Statement containing reasonable inference inconsistent with guilt is admissible as admission and does not qualify as confession.