California Evidence Code

§ 1250

EVID § 1250Div. 10 · Ch. 2 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)Subject to Section 1252, evidence of a statement of the declarant’s then existing state of mind, emotion, or physical sensation (including a statement of intent, plan, motive, design, mental feeling, pain, or bodily health) is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when:

(1)The evidence is offered to prove the declarant’s state of mind, emotion, or physical sensation at that time or at any other time when it is itself an issue in the action; or

(2)The evidence is offered to prove or explain acts or conduct of the declarant.

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Legislative history

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.