People v. Shirley

Supreme Court of California · Decided 1982-03-11

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Opinion MOSK, J. The principal question on this appeal is whether a witness may be allowed to testify after he has undergone hypnosis for the purpose of restoring his memory of the events in issue. The question is new to this court, but has been often litigated in our sister states and exten *23 sively studied by medical science, In accord with recent and p…

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