15.14 - B. Memory And Recollection

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B. Memory and Recollection

In testing the accuracy of a witness’s memory, the cross-examiner should analyze the witness’s usual pattern of conduct and behavior, the routineness of the facts or events about which the witness has testified and whether the witness expected, at the time of the event, that he subsequently would be required to recall the event.

The avenues of attack may include challenges predicated on proof...

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