CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Except. Requiring Unavail
......Exception: Dying Declarations
.........Declarant's Timely Death
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Declarant need not die immediately after making statement for it to be admissible as dying declaration so long as sense of impending death present.

No abuse of discretion in admitting severely wounded V's statements as dying declaration, even though he lingered on for 11 days; neither did admission violate confrontation clause.