CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Method of Exam: Cross-Exam
......Ability to Perceive or Recall
.........Drug Usage
............Habitual or Prior Use
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D not permitted to inquire as to whether witness using drugs when only evidence of drug use remote.

Drug use and psychiatric treatment 5 years earlier too remote to affect witness' credibility at trial.

Prior use of LSD did not disqualify witness from testifying.

Cross-exam re hospitalization for drug addiction not relevant to bias, motive and interest in testifying.