San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, 2012 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/19/MNKL1MRPVJ.DTL
Lopez went to her neighbor a day after the New Year’s Eve incident, but prosecutors might be able to show she was still traumatized when she made the taped statements, said David Sklansky, a UC Berkeley law professor.
Lopez’s recorded statements about her physical pain and alleged fears of her husband might be allowed in court, under that hearsay exception, but an account of how she was injured probably wouldn’t be, said Andrea Roth, another Berkeley law professor.