CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Method of Exam: Cross-Exam
......Ability to Perceive or Recall
.........Psychiatric Treatment
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Failure to permit D to voir dire complaining witness (who is mental patient) re competency raises "serious questions of procedural fairness."

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