CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Forensic Issues
.........Hypnosis
............Limitations on Witnesses
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Testimony of witness who underwent hypnosis for purpose of restoring memory of events in issue inadmissible re all matters relating to those events, from time of hypnotic session forward.

Testimony of witness who underwent hypnosis for purpose of restoring memory of events in issue inadmissible re all matters relating to those events, from time of hypnotic session forward.

Witness' statements given under hypnosis inadmissible as unreliable.

Witness who has been hypnotized cannot testify to matters that were subject of hypnotic session unless Evid. Code §795 criteria are met.

Witness allowed to testify re events about which witness's recall had not been enhanced by hypnosis.