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Why did this US prosecutor keep asking whether documents would refresh a witness's memory?
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Witnesses are generally confined to giving testimony from their own personal memory; most of the time, they can't read a statement into the record or just tell the jury to go look at ...
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Why did this US prosecutor keep asking whether documents would refresh a witness's memory?
Witnesses cannot refer to documents or notes
australia
That’s because witness testimony is supposed to be what the witness remembers, not what they are prompted to remember.
This is covered by s32 of ...
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