CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Method of Exam: Direct Exam
......Leading Questions
.........Exceptions
............Handicapped Witnesses
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Trial court had the discretion to allow DA to use leading questions with speech-impaired witness where it deemed option most fair to all parties.

Court has discretion to permit leading questions on direct examination of elderly persons who lack memory and cannot understand questions.

Court has discretion to permit leading questions on direct examination of witness with low intelligence and whose testimony is vague, uncertain and confused.