P. v. Gray
Filed 4/25/06 P. v. Gray CA3
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
(Sacramento)
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| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JEFFERY BREON GRAY, Defendant and Appellant. | C047540
(Super. Ct. No. 02F06430)
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III
Over defense objections, the trial court admitted four hearsay statements of the victim to two friends about instances of domestic violence on the part of the defendant toward her. The defendant contends this violated his right to confrontation.
A
The victim moved in with a friend from childhood upon being released from prison in 2001. The defendant spent the night with the victim on several occasions. Within a month after the victim moved in, the friend observed scrapes, which the victim told her were the result of the defendant pushing her out of a car. Once, during a phone conversation with the defendant, the victim handed the phone to her friend, who heard the defendant angrily threaten to kill the victim because she had used drugs while pregnant with what the defendant believed to be his child, and this resulted in the declaration of a dependency for the infant. The victim told her this was part of a recent pattern of increasingly aggravated threats. Finally, a month or so before her death, the friend found the victim crying in the bathroom and bleeding from her mouth; she said the defendant had â€
