California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Marshall, 121 Cal.App.3d 627, 175 Cal.Rptr. 497 (Cal. App. 1981):
Where the trial court's finding of evasiveness has a reasonable basis in the record its ruling should be given great deference. Thus, "even where the witness professes no recollection at all of the underlying events or of having made the statement" the evidence is admissible. (People v. O'Quinn, supra, 109 Cal.App.3d 219, 226, 167 Cal.Rptr. 141.)
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