Does the fact that a witness is drunk even very drunk make her or her testimony impossible or inherently improbable?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Demartile, C061595, No. S08CRF0341 (Cal. App. 2010):
The fact that a witness is drunk even very drunk does not make her or his testimony impossible or inherently improbable. We have previously emphasized that "the weight of evidence, the credibility of the witnesses and of the effect of the asserted intoxication... were solely problems for the determination of
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the jury, with which we may not interfere on this appeal." (People v. Jackson (1948) 88 Cal.App.2d 747, 751.)
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