CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Except. Requiring Unavail
......Exception: Minor's Stmts re: Sex Abuse
.........Reqmt: Reliability
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Requirements guaranteeing reliability.

Child victim's hearsay statements admissible only if statements bear particularized guarantees of trustworthiness without consideration of corroboration.

Admission of videotaped interview of nontestifying 2 1/2 year old re alleged abuse constitutes gross denial of D's Confrontation Clause rights.