CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Except. Requiring Unavail
......Exception: Decl. Against Interest
.........Types of Interests: Social Interest
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For declaration against social interest to be admissible (1) content of statement and (2) that statement was made must both be against declarant's social interest.

D's wife's statement to him, that she committed adultery with the man D killed, properly admitted under social interest exception to hearsay rule.

Statements which might subject declarant to sanity hearing and confinement are sufficiently against interest to fall within exception to hearsay rule.