Bill Text: CA AB2243 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Evidence: admissibility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-06-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 27, Statutes of 2018. [AB2243 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2243-Chaptered.html
Assembly Bill No. 2243 |
CHAPTER 27 |
An act to add Section 1162 to the Evidence Code, relating to evidence.
[
Approved by
Governor
June 13, 2018.
Filed with
Secretary of State
June 13, 2018.
]
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2243, Friedman.
Evidence: admissibility.
Existing law provides that except as otherwise provided by statute, all relevant evidence is admissible.
This bill would prohibit the admissibility of evidence that a victim of, or a witness to, extortion, stalking, or a violent felony, each as defined, has engaged in an act of prostitution at or around the time he or she was the victim of or witness to the crime in order to prove the victim’s or witness’s criminal liability in a separate prosecution for the act of prostitution.
The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-In-Evidence, which requires
a2/3 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.
Because this bill may exclude from a criminal action information about a person’s liability for an act of prostitution that would otherwise be admissible, it requires a2/3 vote of the Legislature.