CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Method of Exam: Direct Exam
......Refreshing Recollection
.........Admission Into Evidence
............Introduction Not Permitted
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Where timeline was not admissible evidence, it could not be read aloud to the jury by witness while being used to refresh her recollection.

Party using document to refresh recollection may not introduce it into evidence.

Use of illegal recording of phone conversation to refresh recollection of participant permissible; recording itself inadmissible.

Document which is inadmissible as matter of law may not be admitted, even if used by witness to refresh recollection.

Mere use of a writing to refresh witness' recollection does not make writing itself admissible.