CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 213
Adoptive Admissions
Y ou have heard evidence that [name of declarant] made the following
statement: [describe statement]. Y ou may consider that statement as
evidence against [name of party against whom statement was offered] only
if you find that all of the following conditions are true:
1. The statement was made to [name of party against whom statement
was offered] or made in [his/her/ nonbinary pronoun] presence;
2. [Name of party against whom statement was offered] heard and
understood the statement;
3. [Name of party against whom statement was offered] would, under
all the circumstances, naturally have denied the statement if [he/
she/nonbinary pronoun] thought it was not true;
3. AND
4. [Name of party against whom statement was offered] could have
denied it but did not.
If you decide that any of these conditions are not true, you must not
consider for any purpose either the statement or [name of party against
whom statement was offered]’s response.
[Y ou must not consider this evidence against any other party.]
New September 2003; Revised December 2012
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
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