CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Statements
......Prior Consistent Statements
.........Test for Consistency
4 Cards On This Topic:
  • 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.
  • W's testimony from first trial, offered as prior consistent statement, properly excluded as irrelevant opinion based upon her state of mind, not D's.
  • Substantial evidence supported D's use of gun during carjacking as jury could rationally credit Vs' consistent original accounts that D wielded the gun, rendered near time of crime and before D's family intimidated them.
  • Tape of D's post-arrest stmts to girlfriend not admissible as prior consistent statements where credibility not attacked, arrest could be motive for bias and D didn't testify "at hearing."