CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay
......Credibility of Hearsay Declarant
.........Impeachment
............Prior Consistent Statements
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W's prior consistent statements generally inadmissible to support trial testimony ••unless•• evidence of prior ••inconsistent•• statement already introduced to impeach W, and the consistent statement made first.

Although trial court erred in admitting wife's testimony as hearsay evidence, it correctly admitted it as testimony to support her deceased husband's credibility under EC 1202 and 791.

Detective's testimony to out-of-court statement made by passenger in D's car at time of murder properly admitted for impeachment purposes and violated none of D's statutory or constitutional rights.

V’s stmts to paramedic and officer at scene properly admitted as nontestimonial, and 3d stmt describing attacker as partial impeachment under EC 1202 of her earlier descriptions.

Prior inconsistent statement admissible to impeach hearsay declarant.