CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
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Hearsay Exceptions re Writings
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Past Recollection Recorded
.........Limit: Witness Must Remember Prior Writng
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Statement of five-year-old child taken by police two years before child testified at trial qualified for the past recollection recorded hearsay exception even where child remembered only that he spoke to police and told the truth.
No confrontation or X-exam violation in admitting W's statements to O, recorded in report, where sufficient basis to find them reliable and in conformity w/Evid. Code §1237.
Proper foundation laid for hearsay statements though W did not recall them, was in detox, delusional & having drug problems at trial: W testified statements true.
Cases discussing various aspects of the requirement that a witness remember the prior writing.